Birth Wars
Delivering Safe Maternity in a Changing World
$53.12
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2027
Summary
A midwife investigates how maternity care highlights the most pressing social and economic challenges around the world.
Giving birth is everyone’s business.
In this book, midwife and bestselling author Leah Hazard takes us from luxurious birthing suites to maximum-security prisons, from border-town clinics to refugee camps, freebirthing communities to wards dominated by algorithms, showing how childbirth provides a startling lens onto the biggest issues of our time. With clari…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241720929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241720923 |
| Author: | Leah Hazard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 629g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 156mm x 240mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for Leah Hazard * - *
It is her capacity to love and give so personally to the many thousands of women she has worked with which imbues this book with its power – Julia Samuel
Leah Hazard expertly blends science with passion – Rachel Clarke, author of The Story of a Heart
Leah Hazard is a brilliant storyteller – Katherine May, author of Wintering
Brings the maternity ward to life in all its gory, humorous and touching glory * Telegraph *
Hazard’s eye is keen, her range broad, and her tone scrupulously compassionate * Publisher’s Weekly *
Leah Hazard
Leah Hazard studied English Literature at Harvard University and worked in journalism before retraining and qualifying as a midwife in 2013. Her memoir, Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and her next book, Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began, was Scottish Book of the Year and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Leah lives in Scotland, where she continues to work for the NHS and advocate for safer, more equitable maternity care.
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