Examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists -- the cesarean section -- and challenges most existing explanations of this unprecedented rise, arguing that there is a new culture ...

Experts warn that up to 50 percent of the more than 1 million C-sections performed here each year are unnecessary. And that is where Nicette Jukelevics, a certified childbirth educator, researcher and writer, steps in with this book.

The need to improve maternal and child health care may be the most important global health need of the remaining years of the twentieth century. It is central to the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal of Health for All by the Year 2000.

In this book, we present recent advances in surgical techniques as well as the most common perioperative complications in patients that undergo a cesarean section. Moreover, we discuss appropriate measures to reduce unnecessary procedures.

Although the procedure can be life-saving, how—and why—did it become so ubiquitous? Cesarean Section is the first book to chronicle this history.

In an unbiased, authoritative guide on C-sections, mothers-to-be are offered vital information on the procedure, such as why Cesareans are performed, what the procedure entails, and strategies to help them recover from the surgery.

Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world's crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child.