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Get me out : a history of childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the sperm bank
- Author
- Epstein, Randi Hutter.
- Title
- Get me out : a history of childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the sperm bank / Randi Hutter Epstein.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2010.
- Description
- xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302).
- Contents
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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
- Kinsey subjects
- Childbirth. Obstetrics and gynecology.
- ISBN
- 9780393064582 0393064581