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Get Me Out A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

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ISBN-10: 0393064581

ISBN-13: 9780393064582

Edition: 2010

Authors: Randi Hutter Epstein

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Making and having babies—what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver—has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. The birth gurus of ancient times told newlyweds that simultaneous orgasms were necessary for conception and that during pregnancy a woman should drink red wine but not too much and have sex but not too frequently. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks. In Get Me Out , the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science,…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/11/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., is a medical journalist who has written for magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times andnbsp;the Washington Post. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.

Introduction
Eve's Doing: Birth from Antiquity through the Middle Ages
Men with Tools: Forceps Use from 1600s to 1800s
Slave Women's Contribution to Gynecology
Dying to Give Birth: Maternal Mortality into the Twentieth Century
Leaving Home: New York's Lying-In and the Growth of Maternity Wards
Birth Is but a Sleep and Forgetting
What Was She Thinking? Freud Meets Fertility
It's Only Natural
Toxic Advice and a Deadly Drug: DES
From Kitchen-Table Surgery to the Art of the C-Section
Freebirthers
Womb with a View
Sperm Shopping
The Big Chill
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography