Get Me Out - A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank (Hardcover)

Making and having babies what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. The birth gurus of ancient times told newlyweds that simultaneous orgasms were necessary for conception and that during pregnancy a woman should drink red wine but not too much and have sex but not too frequently. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks. In Get Me Out, the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science, where audacious researchers have gone to extreme measures to get healthy babies out of mothers. Here is an entertaining must-read and an enlightening celebration of human life."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Randi Hutter Epstein
Dimensions:	216 x 150 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-06458-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Advice on parenting > Pregnancy, birth & baby care
LSN:	0-393-06458-1
Barcode:	9780393064582

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