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Ágnes Geréb

Natural Birth: The Long Struggle of Dr. Ágnes Geréb

In the final piece in a series on birth and technology, David Reynolds shares the history of Hungary’s tireless natural childbirth advocate.

By David A. J. Reynolds | December 26, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Government, Health, Law, Medicine, Reproduction | Ágnes Geréb, Care, Civil Disobedience, Communism, Episiotomy, Hospital Birth, Hungary, Ina May Gaskin, Intimidation, Jail, János Áder, Midwifery, Natural Birth, Obstetrics, Profit, Shoulder Dystocia
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The Attack on Natural Childbirth

Over the past century or so, the most natural and integral part of the human life-cycle—birth—has been systematically medicalized and institutionalized, at the expense of the body’s own wisdom.

By David A. J. Reynolds | June 13, 2018 | Community, Culture, Ethics, Family, Health, Medicine, Reproduction, Society, Well-Being | Ágnes Geréb, Babies, Barbara Bridgman Perkins, Birthing, Childbirth, Children, Control, Efficiency, Hilary Marland, Home-Birth, Ina May Gaskin, Institutionalized Birth, Jennifer Block, L.H. Lumey, Machines, Maternity Care, Medicine, Midwifery, Nadine Edwards, Nature, Obstetrics, Oxytocin, Pathology, Physiology, Pregnancy, Rationalism, Repression, Standardization, Surgery, The Netherlands, Western Medicine
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