The Oxytocin Factor

Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., is recognised as a world authority on oxytocin. Her research takes place at the famed Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, where she is Professor of Physiology. She is the author of more than 450 scientific papers and the books, She and He, The Oxytocin Factor, The Hormone of Closeness, Oxytocin: the Biological Guide to Motherhood, and co-author of Attachment to Pets. Dr. Uvnäs Moberg lectures widely in Europe and the United States. Her work has been influential in a variety of fields, including physiology, women’s health, obstetrics, psychology, animal husbandry, physical therapy, pediatrics and child development. She is a mother of four children, and she lives in Djursholm, Sweden.

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.