Get me out : a history of childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the sperm bank / Randi Hutter Epstein.
Epstein, Randi Hutter.
2010
RG651 .E67 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Get me out : a history of childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the sperm bank / Randi Hutter Epstein.
Author
Epstein, Randi Hutter.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393064582
0393064581
Publication Details
New York : Norton, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
RG651 .E67 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
618.2009
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Eve's doing : birth from antiquity through the Middle Ages
Men with tools : forceps use from 1600s to 1800s
Slave women's contribution to gynecology
Dying to give birth : maternal mortality into the twentieth century
Leaving home : New York's lying-in and the growth of maternity wards
Birth is but a sleep and forgetting
What was she thinking? : Freud meets fertility
It's only natural
Toxic advice and a deadly drug : DES
From kitchen-table surgery to the art of the C-section
Freebirthers
Womb with a view
Sperm shopping
The big chill

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