Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America

by Theresa Morris

Book Overview

Cut It Out examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists: the cesarean section.

While c-section births pose a higher risk of maternal death and medical complications, can have negative future reproductive consequences for the mother, increase the recovery time for mothers after birth, and cost almost twice as much as vaginal deliveries, the 2011 cesarean section rate of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814764118
• ISBN13: 9780814764114
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"