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Chapter 10 ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 16, 2025

Word count 6687 Jan 2025 Editor’s Note-2-self –>this post is currently being edited ~ 01-17-2025 @7:20 pm WC 6676 (best not over 2,000 words — equal reading time of 15-16 minutes  Chapter 10   “With sufficient repetition, perception becomes a reality” Childbirth in 2005 ~ as childbearing women suffer needlessly from dangerous obstetrical excesses, midwifery continues […]

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Brief excerpt from older version of “Trapped on wrong side of history” for Suzanne ^0^

by faithgibson January 15, 2025

A brief excerpt post for Suzanne: “How Childbirth Got Trapped on the Wrong Side of History” The Private and Personal Before the Political Before returning to the big issues of organized medicine (AMA), obstetrics as an exclusive franchise (i.e. legal monopoly), and the racial politics of the Deep South during the legalized segregation of the […]

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Chapter 9 draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 13, 2025

Word count 4121 Jan 17, 2025 Chapter Nine Vagina By-pass Surgery: What it actually means for the childbearing woman when her baby is delivered by Cesarean section   The last of our three areas of scrutiny is Cesarean section, reasons why such surgery would be performed and the immediate, delayed and downstream consequences of its […]

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Chapter 8 draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 13, 2025

word count 3715 Jan 17, 2025 Chapter Eight ~ 2001 – 2004: The Surgical Fix At the beginning of the 21st millennium, a small but influential group of obstetricians began to openly question the biology of vaginal birth. This wasn’t the first time that an obstetrician had questioned the basic character of the female reproductive […]

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Chapter 7 draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 13, 2025

word count ~ 3860 Jan 17, 2025 Chapter Seven The Seventies – paradigm shift par excellence! To make it easier to follow the events of this 30-year era, lets considered the story decade-by-decade, beginning with 1970s. In the early 1970s there were no less than three new kids on the block — electronic fetal monitoring, […]

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