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Birth

The Surprising History of How We Are Born

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Written by: Tina Cassidy
Narrated by: Angela Starling
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Published to widespread acclaim, Tina Cassidy's smart, engaging book is the first world history of childbirth in 50 years. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we're born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia, but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth? Cassidy explores the physical, anthropological, political, and religious factors that have and will continue to influence how women bring new life into the world.

©2006 Tina Cassidy. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc. Sexual & Reproductive Health Social Sciences World Sexual Health Pregnancy Birth History
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What an amazing book! So interesting and enlightening. Very impressed with all the research the author did. Also really enjoyed the narrator’s voice.

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I had hoped but hadn't expected it to go into the depth it had on the history of not just childbirth but pregnancy, cultural expectations, postpartum and more that surround not just childbirth but everything that goes into and results from it.

Informative beyond expectation

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I listened to this book for an assignment in my childbirth educator course and it was so enjoyable and inspiring!

Wonderfully performed!

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