silver_lover
Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:07 am Post subject: Henci Goer critiques recent New Yorker article |
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Dear Friends,
In early October the New Yorker Magazine published an article “How
childbirth went industrial.” If you read it, you probably became pretty
incensed by the misinformation, omissions and outright lies about
childbirth that we have, unfortunately, come to expect from the world of
organized medicine. The author, Atul Gawande, is an Assistant Professor
of Surgery and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy
and Management, at Harvard Medical School.
Thankfully, Henci Goer has prepared a detailed critique: "How Childbirth
Went Industrial: A Deconstruction," and Mothering Magazine has made it
available on their website: http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/childbirth-wentindustrial.html"
http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/childbirth-went-industrial.html .
Henci’s article includes a link to the New Yorker article.
Not only does Henci’s article provide a thorough rebuttal of Gawande’s
assertions, but it also provides all of us a succinct rebuttal of the
arguments that typically and frequently come up in the public media
about childbirth. Read it, and keep a copy around for future reference!
Thank you Henci Goer and Mothering Magazine!
Sincerely,
Susan Hodges, “gatekeeper”
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