Can Humanity Survive Socialised Birth?
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- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
5 July 2023
Summary
Since the advent of agriculture and animal husbandry, the human population has multiplied by about one thousand in a ‘demographic explosion’. However, in recent years, global fertility rates have begun to decrease significantly, and this is one reason to make a case for humans being becoming an endangered species.
Many of the possible interpretations of this dramatic U-turn in the history of mankind may be found in modern ways of being born. For example, where caesarean rates are high…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780668000 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780668007 |
| Author: | Michel Odent |
| Publisher: | Montag & Martin Limited |
| Imprint: | Pinter & Martin Ltd. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 215mm x 79mm |
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About The Author
Michel Odent
Michel Odent MD was in charge of the surgical unit and the maternity unit at the Pithiviers (France) state hospital from 1962–85.
For many years he was the only doctor overseeing around 1,000 births a year. He is the author of the first article in the medical literature about the initiation of lactation during the hour following birth (1977), the first article about the use of birthing pools (1983), and the first article applying the ‘gate control theory of pain’ to obstetrics (1975).
He created the Primal Health Research database and he has been a member of the Professional Advisory Board of La Leche League International for 40 years. He is a Visiting Professor at the Odessa National Medical University and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Brasilia.
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