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.
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.