Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm BankMaking 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, where audacious researchers have gone to extreme measures to get healthy babies out of mothers. Here is an entertaining must-read--and an enlightening celebration of human life. |
Contents
Birth from Antiquity through | 3 |
Forceps Use from 1600s to 1800s | 17 |
Slave Womens Contribution to Gynecology | 35 |
Maternal Mortality into | 51 |
New Yorks LyingIn and the Growth | 63 |
Birth Is but a Sleep and Forgetting | 78 |
From KitchenTable Surgery to the Art of | 153 |
Freebirthers | 169 |
Womb with a View | 187 |
Sperm Shopping | 203 |
The Big Chill | 228 |
Epilogue | 245 |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
Notes | 257 |
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