Birth

A journalist “ explores the way childbirth has changed, from pre-history to the present” in this “fascinating, funny and occasionally shocking” historical survey ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review). From midwives to the epidural and beyond, mother and former Boston Globe editor Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how we handle the process of childbirth. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the b