Birth

Books about Birth

Balaskas, Janet

Active Birth. (Harvard, MA: Harvard Common Press, 1992).

Baldwin, Rahima

Special Delivery: The Complete Guide to Informed Birth. (Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1986).

Cohen, Nancy Wainer

Open Season: A Survival Guide for Natural Childbirth and Vback in the 90s. (Bergin & Garvey, 1991).

Dick-Read, Grantly

Childbirth Without Fear. (New York: Harper and Row, 1959).

Flamm, Bruce

Birth After Cesarean: The Medical Facts. (New York: Fireside, 1990).

Harper, Barbara

Gentle Birth Choices. (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1994).

Jones, Carl

Mind Over Labor. (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987).

Kitzinger, Shiela

The Experience of Childbirth, 5th Edition. (New York: Penguin Books, 1982).

Kitzinger, Sheila

Giving Birth: The Parents’ Emotions in Childbirth. (New York: Schocken, 1977).

Kitzinger, Sheila and Penny Simkin

Episiotomy and the Second Stage of Labor, 2nd ed. (Seattle: Pennypress, 1986).

Koehler, Nan

Artemis Speaks: V.B.A.C. Stories & Natural Childbirth Information. (Nan Ullrike Koehler, 1989).

Korte, Diana and Roberta Scaer

A Good Birth, A Safe Birth. (Harvard: Harvard Common Press, 1992).

Lichy, Roger, M.D. and Eileen Herzberg.

The Waterbirth Handbook. (Bath, UK: Gateway Books, 1993).

Lieberman, Adrienne B.

Easing Labor Pain: The Complete Guide to Achieving a More Comfortable and Rewarding Birth. Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1987).

Mitford, Jessica

The American Way of Birth. (The Penguin Group, 1992).

Mc,Cutcheon-Rosegg, Susan

Natural Childbirth The Bradley Way. (Plume, 1996).

Odent, Michel

Birth Reborn. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984 and 1990).

Peterson, Gayle

An Easier Childbirth. (1993).

Peterson, Gayle

Birthing Normally. (Berkeley, CA: Mind-body Press, 1984).

Saskia van Rees, Astrid Limburg and Beatrijs Smulders.

Women Giving Birth. (Berkeley,CA: Celestial Arts, 1992).

Sears, William and Martha

The Birth Book. (Little Brown & Co., 1994).

The Birth Movement

Arms, Suzanne

Immaculate Deception. (South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1985).

Arms, Suzanne

Immaculate Deception II--A Fresh Look at Childbirth. (Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1994.)

Janet Isaacs Ashford.

Mothers and Midwives: A History of Traditional Childbirth. (Solana Beach, CA: Janet Isaacs Ashford, 1988).

Davis-Floyd, Robbie

Birth as an American Rite of Passage. 1992.

Donnison, Jean

Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women's Rights. (Schocken Books, 1977).

Pamela S. Eakins, editor.

The American Way of Birth. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986).

Edwards, Margot and Waldorf, Mary

Reclaiming Birth: History and Heroines of American Childbirth Reform. (The Crossing Press, 1984).

Korte, Diana and Roberta Scaer

A Good Birth, A Safe Birth. (Harvard: Harvard Common Press, 1992).

Mitford, Jessica

The American Way of Birth. (The Penguin Group, 1992).

Odent, Michel

Birth Reborn. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984 and 1990).

Rothman, Barbara Katz

In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace. (New York: Norton, 1991.)

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