Deliver Me from Pain: Anesthesia and Birth in America

by Jacqueline H. Wolf

Book Overview

Despite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labor continues to evoke fear among American women. Rather than embrace the natural childbirth methods promoted in the 1970s, most women welcome epidural anesthesia and even Cesarean deliveries. In Deliver Me from Pain, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it historically posed serious risk to mothers and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405725
• ISBN13: 9781421405728
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher