draft ~ Topic 4 – The Big Reveal – motives hidden beneath claims OB interventions make childbirth safer healthy women

by faithgibson February 5, 2023

TOPIC-4_Page 13_The Big Reveal ~ Motives hidden beneath claims that more obstetrical interventions make childbirth safer for healthy childbearing women This bring us back to the question I first started asking when I saw the drastic contrast between the non-interventive practices associated with childbirth of black mothers on 1 South, compared to “business as usual” […]

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draft ~ Topic 3 – Ch 1 motives behind 1910 decision by to define normal childbirth in healthy upper-class (white) women as pathological & far-reaching consequences

by faithgibson February 4, 2023

Coped to fg.org as draft TOPIC-3 pages 12 &13 Chapter 1. The motives behind the obstetrical profession’s 1910 decision to define normal childbirth in healthy upper-class (white) women to be inherently pathological and its far-reaching consequences When I was first introduced to the highly obstetricalized childbirth practice of American obstetrics in the 1960s, the unquestioned […]

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draft ~ Topic 1 – The History of Obstetrics in America and why these historic facts still matter in 2023

by faithgibson February 3, 2023

Background Reading ~ Part 1 The History of Obstetrics in America and why these historic facts still matter in 2022 The “new” American Obstetrics as a surgical specialty, circa 1910 turned normal childbirth upside down in the healthy population (75%) of woman, which paved the way for the NEJM paper 74 years later, claiming that […]

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The “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” nature of the obstetrical dilemma

by faithgibson February 1, 2023

Still needs photos The “Jekyll and Hyde” nature of the obstetrical dilemma I haven’t worked in a hospital L&D for many years but the nature of the beast, which is based in “controlling the process”, is not all that different today. It’s still a system in which the use of interventions during labor is the […]

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The Disturbing story of obstetrics in America from 1910 to 1980 ~ Older version – Gender-writ Large

by faithgibson January 13, 2023

12,107 word ~ 2nd Draft version w/ better wording of several topics to be transferred to appropriate chapter  — don’t delete until finished moving text The gender gap writ large, with women as mothers and midwives the historic losers. It’s also at the root of why the medical profession was so prejudiced against, and demeaning […]

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