Summary
Renowned for her practice’s exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth-which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections-and renew confidence in a woman’s natural ability to birth.Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women’s rights …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583229279 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583229272 |
| Author: | Ina May Gaskin |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 260 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 138mm |
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Critics Review
“A stand-out by Ina May Gaskin…elegantly covers the normalcy and power of birth, includes birth stories, and makes sound arguments for more support and less intervention. An essential acquisition.” —Library Journal
“Ina May Gaskin is such an important figure in the effort to bring a more kind birthing process back into the mainstream, so check out her book if you’d like to learn more about having a blissful, powerful birthing experience.” —Alicia Silverstone, author of The Kind Life
About The Author
Ina May Gaskin
Ina May Gaskin is founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center, located near Summertown, Tennessee. She has lectured all over the world at midwifery conferences and at medical schools, both to students and to faculty. The Farm is noted for its low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality. Recently selected as a Visiting Fellow at Morse College of Yale University, Ina May also teaches midwifery, writes books and articles for medical journals and edits her quarterly journal, The Birth Gazette.
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