Laboring On - Simonds, Wendy (Georgia State University, USA) a Rothman, Barbara Katz (Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA) a Meltzer Norman, Bari

Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. This book offers the voices of various practitioners, women trying to help women, as they struggle with this increasingly split vision of birth.