Can Humanity Survive Socialised Birth?

Author:   Michel Odent
Publisher:   Pinter & Martin Ltd.
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9781780668000


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   06 July 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Since the advent of agriculture and animal husbandry, the human population has multiplied by about one thousand in a ‘demographic explosion’. However, in recent years, global fertility rates have begun to decrease significantly, and this is one reason to make a case for humans being becoming an endangered species. Many of the possible interpretations of this dramatic U-turn in the history of mankind may be found in modern ways of being born. For example, where caesarean rates are high, the average number of babies born per woman is very low. During the ultimate phase of the history of socialised birth, the hormonal dance that was previously essential is altered or eliminated. Today childbirth needs to be highly medicalised, after thousands of years of misunderstanding of the physiological processes involved. In a renewed scientific context, it may still be possible to rediscover the basic needs of labouring women and to try to ensure the future of our species. Is it too late to reach such a utopia? Michel Odent re-evaluates the comparative importance of recently acquired insights, to suggest links between data and ways of thinking from a great diversity of highly specialised disciplines.

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Author:   Michel Odent
Publisher:   Pinter & Martin Ltd.
Imprint:   Pinter & Martin Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.136kg
ISBN:  

9781780668000


ISBN 10:   1780668007
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   06 July 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Michel Odent MD was in charge of the surgical unit and the maternity unit at the Pithiviers (France) state hospital from 1962–85. For many years he was the only doctor overseeing around 1,000 births a year. He is the author of the first article in the medical literature about the initiation of lactation during the hour following birth (1977), the first article about the use of birthing pools (1983), and the first article applying the ‘gate control theory of pain’ to obstetrics (1975). He created the Primal Health Research database (www.primalhealthresearch.com) and he has been a member of the Professional Advisory Board of La Leche League International for 40 years. He is a Visiting Professor at the Odessa National Medical University and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Brasilia.

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