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Roth, Louise Marie, 1970-

The business of birth : malpractice and maternity care in the United States / Louise Marie Roth. - 1 online resource : illustrations, color maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Birth Matters: The Importance of Birth and the Logic of American Maternity Care -- Law Matters: Tort Regimes and Reproductive Rights Regimes -- Myths of Malpractice: Liability Risk in American Maternity Care -- What's the Rush? Tort Laws and Elective Early-Term Births -- The Machine that Goes Ping! Technology Fetishism and the Electronic Fetal Monitor -- If in Doubt, Cut it Out: Malpractice and Cesareans -- Choice Matters: Reproductive Rights Regimes and VBAC -- Reproductive Regimes: The Legal Environment and Maternity Care in the United States.

""The Business of Birth" explores malpractice and maternity care in the United States"--

ISBN: 9781479809097 1479826111 9781479826117 1479809098

LCCN: 2020015025

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Maternal health services--United States.
Maternal health services--Economic aspects--United States.
Obstetricians--Malpractice--United States.
MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Maternal health services.
Maternal health services--Economic aspects.
Obstetricians--Malpractice.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RG960 / .R66 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1982