The Apex of Technological Birth
In many places, birth by emergency surgery–the C-section–is increasingly the norm. Part three in a series on technological childbirth.
In many places, birth by emergency surgery–the C-section–is increasingly the norm. Part three in a series on technological childbirth.
The second part of a series on childbirth examines how natural birth has been systematically disabled, at the cost of bonding and health.
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.