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The Rituals of American Hospital Birth by Anthropologist Robbie-David Floyd
“I can remember just almost being in tears by the way they would wheel you in. I would come into the hospital, on top of this, breathing, you know, all in control. And they slap you in a wheelchair! It made me suddenly feel like maybe I wasn’t in control any more.” Why is childbirth,…
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