{"product_id":"laboring-on","title":"Laboring On","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization — best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent — and a rhetoric of women’s \"choices\" and \"the natural,\" women and their midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses labor on. \u003cem\u003eLaboring On\u003c\/em\u003e offers the voices of all of these practitioners, all women trying to help women, as they struggle with this increasingly split vision of birth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpdating Barbara Katz Rothman's now-classic \u003cem\u003eIn Labor\u003c\/em\u003e, the first feminist sociological analysis of birth in the United States, \u003cem\u003eLaboring On\u003c\/em\u003e gives a comprehensive picture of the ever-changing American birth practices and often conflicting visions of birth practitioners. The authors deftly weave compelling accounts of birth work, by midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses, into the larger sociohistorical context of health care practices and activism and offer provocative arguments about the current state of affairs and the future of birth in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236248506712,"sku":"9780415946629","price":210.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415946629.jpg?v=1768637739","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/laboring-on","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}