Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
Randi Hutter Epstein
(Author)
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Description
Making and having babies -- what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver -- have mystified women and men throughout human history. The insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science. Here is an entertaining must-read -- an enlightening celebration of human life.
Product Details
Price
$24.95
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
January 01, 2011
Pages
354
Dimensions
5.48 X 8.23 X 0.84 inches | 0.62 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393339062
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About the Author
Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., the author of Aroused and Get Me Out, is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a lecturer at Yale University, and writer in residence at Yale Medical School. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Psychology Today blog, among others. She lives in New York.
Reviews
Randi Hutter Epstein's book is full of delightful--and sometimes disturbing--anecdotes.
[A] fascinating and powerful recounting of conception and childbirth.
Epstein's fine history of childbirth...carefully describes both the introduction and the progress of new methods and the mindsets that have generated, encouraged, accompanied and justified them.
A lively history...Randi Hutter Epstein injects new energy into the now-familiar story...Her book takes a kind of great-man--and not so great-man--approach to childbirth's history, focusing on some of the personalities who transformed it for better and for worse.--Liza Mundy
[A] fascinating and powerful recounting of conception and childbirth.
Epstein's fine history of childbirth...carefully describes both the introduction and the progress of new methods and the mindsets that have generated, encouraged, accompanied and justified them.
A lively history...Randi Hutter Epstein injects new energy into the now-familiar story...Her book takes a kind of great-man--and not so great-man--approach to childbirth's history, focusing on some of the personalities who transformed it for better and for worse.--Liza Mundy
