Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.
Contents:
Birth shock -- Birth contrasts -- Institutional power in a high tech birth culture : how an anthropologist sees birth -- Managing the reproductive machine -- Sexual abuse and birth -- Flashbacks, panic attacks and nightmares -- Pain -- Other ways of handling pain -- "If only I hadn't" -- The baby -- The partner -- Moving forward -- Pregnant again.
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