Cesarean Section An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence (2018) (PDF) by Jacqueline H. Wolf

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Ebook Info

  • Published: 2018
  • Number of pages: 336
  • Format: PDF
  • File Size: 7.91 MB
  • Authors: Jacqueline H. Wolf

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Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously―from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5–10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth century, by the early twenty-first century, cesarean section was the most commonly performed surgery in the country. Although the procedure can be life-saving, how―and why―did it become so ubiquitous?

Cesarean Section is the first book to chronicle this history. In exploring the creation of the complex social, cultural, economic, and medical factors leading to the surgery’s increase, Jacqueline H. Wolf describes obstetricians’ reliance on assorted medical technologies that weakened the skills they had traditionally employed to foster vaginal birth. She also reflects on an unsettling malpractice climate―prompted in part by a raft of dubious diagnoses―that helped to legitimize “defensive medicine,” and a health care system that ensured cesarean birth would be more lucrative than vaginal birth. In exaggerating the risks of vaginal birth, doctors and patients alike came to view cesareans as normal and, increasingly, as essential. Sweeping change in women’s lives beginning in the 1970s cemented this markedly different approach to childbirth.

User’s Reviews

“Offering a measured and persuasive argument, this book makes an illuminating, erudite intervention in the national conversation about the historical experience of cesarean section and the drivers that fuel today’s sky-high rates.”

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