Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

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The state of American childbirth is grim at best. More than half of all women are given drugs to induce or speed up labor, and for nearly a third of all mothers, childbirth is a major surgery. While natural alternatives do exists, finding them in your community is a chore, and sometimes impossible. In this brilliant expose, Jennifer Block looks at maternity care in America and shows how, while emergency care is necessary, it's being overused and costing lives. A scholarly and compassionate book, "Pushed" is sure to raise some eyebrows while providing a much needed call for reform in our medical system. Block is a former editor at Ms. Magazine.

Review

Kirkus Reviews
"A provocative and hotly controversial analysis of a side of reproductive rights feminism seems to have forgot."