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The Business of Being Born: You Cannot Have Bliss Without Pain

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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 argues [...]