Cassidy, Tina. The Surprising History of How we are Born: Birth. New York: Grove Press, 2006. Print.
1)
a. Women who have self administered cesarean sections.
b. The “save the baby but risk death of the mother” debate
c. The theory that male midwives dressed as women to trick their clients into thinking they were being treated by a woman.
d. Male doctors constantly thinking they are doing more good than harm.
2)
Every generation of doctors, midwives and patients thought that the way they were handling birth was the correct, most convenient and safest way, turns out some of them were wrong.
Reading about all the tools used and drugs experimented with in order to ease birth and the outcomes of their use are shocking because it leads me to question if what is currently being done today is the safest methods. Its mind blowing that through industrialization the American culture and many other cultures have birthed such a deep whole; technology doesn’t seem to be working to improve the situation.
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a. Having planed cesarean sections because women are “too posh to push” pg 123
b. Putting a cloth over a women was to “preserve their modesty” why still use it today? Pg 132
c. Dick-Reads (1900) point of view for why Child birth doesn’t need as much outside interference as our culture applies to it. pg 144
d. Friedman’s “cervimetric curve’s” misuse, there is a wide range of normal in birth. Pg157
e. Water births are safe and effective, but doctors create obstacles in order to keep their practice alive. Pg 190
4)
Authors claim: Freidman created the “cirvimetric curve” which tracked the average length of time of the three stages of labor. I found supporting evidence in “Dewhurst's Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynecology for Postgraduates” the quote I found is, “the graphic analysis of labour’ (Friedman 1954) was the first of a series of classical contributions whereby the science of partoghray was established to become the corner stone of clinical evaluation of progress in labour. The sigmoid nature of Friedman’s curve is a source of some interest. The gradual rise in the latent phase is followed by the steep slope of the active phase and then a short less steep curve to full dilation.” Based on the evidence, it seems as if Tina Cassidy did an accurate job for portraying who Freidman was and what he contributed to the birthing discourse. I think it was important for Cassidy to include how the curve affects today’s births and the misuse of the graph.
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