Birth Without Surgery: A Guide to Preventing Unnecessary Caesareans

Jones, Carl

ISBN 10: 0396089224 / ISBN 13: 9780396089223

Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1987

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very nice clean tight hardback with only very light overall wear. pages clean and unmarked. dust jacket has a price sticker on front, a small tear on edge and a scuffed area on back.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Birth Without Surgery: A Guide to Preventing Unnecessary Caesareans
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0396089224
• ISBN 13: 9780396089223
• Binding: Hard Back
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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Herbal medicine enthusiast Gardner offers remedies to many of the maladies associated with pregnancy and childbirth. While the herbs she suggests can be helpful, such recommendations as regulating the menstrual cycle to coincide with lunar phases seems somewhat ludicrous. Of limited value. Birth Without Surgery laments the rise in the cesarean birth rate and presents steps to reverse it. Unfortunately, Jones suggests that a mother is less of a woman if she does not give birth vaginally and that she may be at fault if a cesarean is performed. While vaginal birth is the preferred mode of entry into the world, creating guilt and anxiety in those who give birth surgically is unjustified. A better source on cesareans is Nancy Cohen's Silent Knife (LJ 3/1/83).Robert Schmid, L.R.C. of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical Sch.
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