Research Catalog

Title

Birth day : a pediatrician explores the science, the history, and the wonder of childbirth / Mark Sloan.

Author

Sloan, Mark, M.D.

Publication

New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.

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Details

Description

xii, 370 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

In Birth Day, Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture into a fascinating–and often funny–tapestry of this fundamental human passage. Birth Day takes the reader on a remarkable journey, from the dawn of human history to the quiet efficiency of a modern operating room; from Aristotle and Julius Caesar to a trailblazing, cross-dressing British army surgeon; from a recent past filled with the horrors of childbirth gone wrong to a present day, in which every pregnancy is expected to end happily.

Alternative Title

Birthday

Subjects

• Popular works
• Parturition
• Childbirth > Popular works
• Popular Work

Genre/Form

• Popular Work
• Popular works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-355) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On being born. Twenty babies : an unexpectedly quick introduction to vaginal birth ; The first five minutes ; An alternate route : Cesarean birth -- Pain and politics. B.E. (before epidurals) ; Nowadays : an "epidural monoculture"? -- Significant others. Daddies ; The gang's all here : a history of birth attendance -- Looking at babies. Inside looking out : the five senses at birth ; "The newborn worth rearing" : infant resuscitation, from Aristotle to Apgar ; Infant origami : a guided tour of the newborn body.

ISBN

• 9780345502865 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0345502868 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009000662

OCLC

232129201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library