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Our colleague, Dr. Rebecca Williams, has set up a website exploring Family Centered Maternity Care (FCMC). Family Centered Maternity Care, as she explains it, is “a philosophical approach to prenatal care and delivery providing care to the pregnant woman in the context of her family. FCMC is prenatal care that considers, includes, and fosters the [...]
Social Medicine Rounds on 9/23/08 was devoted to a showing of the film The Business of Being Born, produced by Ricki Lane and directed by Abby Epstein. The film, which traces several pregnancies and births, offers an extended contrast between the highly medicalized world of US obstetrics and the world of homebirths and midwifery. It [...]
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