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Lädt ... Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank (2011. Auflage)von Randi Hutter Epstein M.D. (Autor)
Werk-InformationenGet Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank von Randi Hutter Epstein
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Dr. Epstein, an obstetrician/gynecologist, has written a well-researched book on the history of childbirth in America. She documents many milestones in OB/GYN across at least three centuries. A few parts of this book were extremely difficult to read. Dr. Epstein describes a 19th century male physician who bought or borrowed female slaves and used them as experimental surgery subjects. Some of these women endured up to 30 surgeries all without anesthesia. He supposedly believed that black women were not as able to feel pain as white women. Prenatal x-rays were standard for American mothers until the mid 20th century. A female OB/GYN discovered a connection between leukemia in some of the children born to these x-rayed mothers. Even after this discovery many male obstetricians continued to perform x-rays on expectant mothers until sonograms became available. This book made me shake my head in disbelief at some of the things that were done to women in the name of research. It took many years for obstetrics and gynecology to be recognized as a separate discipline. The author shows just how much women had to endure in the process. You'll want to read this non-fiction book cover to cover. The information presented in "Get Me Out" is fantastic, and just what I was looking for when I picked it up. Unfortunately, I had a very hard time getting past Epstein's writing style. It's not just casual (which I don't mind at all) but poorly written and sloppy in a way that reminded me of bad fiction. I still was able to plow through it, but it wasn't the enjoyable experience I was hoping for. Zeige 3 von 3
Randi Hutter Epstein injects new energy into the now-familiar story of how male doctors gradually usurped a procedure that was once the provenance of midwives and how they sometimes victimized women in the process.
Making and having babies--what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver--has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks. Here, the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science, where audacious researchers have gone to extreme measures to get healthy babies out of mothers. The result is an entertaining and enlightening celebration of human life.--From publisher description. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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There were interesting bits, and I did finish the book, but mostly I kept thinking how much better it could have been than it was. ( )