Overview

Making and having babies-what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver-have mystified women and men throughout human history. The insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science. Here is an entertaining must-read-an enlightening celebration of human life.

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Epstein's fine history of childbirth . . . carefully describes both the introduction and progress of new methods and the mind-sets that have generated, encouraged, accompanied and justified them.

Epstein's fine history of childbirth... carefully describes both the introduction and progress of new methods and the mindsets that have generated, encouraged, accompanied and justified them. The Boston Sunday Globe [An] engrossing survey of the history of childbirth. The Washington Post

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Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., the author of Aroused and Get Me Out, is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a lecturer at Yale University, and writer in residence at Yale Medical School. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Psychology Today blog, among others. She lives in New York.

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