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A critical history of maternity care
In all industrialized countries, the last fifty years have seen both a
momentous improvement in the safety of childbirth and the completion
of a momentous revolution in maternity care, with the philosophy and
methods of the obstetric profession triumphant. This book tells the story
of how these changes came about. It is a story urgently in need of
telling, for the subject is one about which there is almost universal mis-
understanding. Far from being a record of conquering idealism, the
realization of an advance in human welfare through the application of
scientific knowledge to improve the natural process of birth by an
altruistic profession with good reason to believe in the rightness of its
methods, it turns out to be a record of the successful denial and con-
cealment of extensive and unanimous evidence that obstetric
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