Deliver Me from Pain Gabrielle Hobday African and immigrant heritage

African and immigrant heritage

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Deliver Me from Pain Gabrielle Hobday African and immigrant heritageDespite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labor continues to evoke fear among American women. Rather than embrace the natural childbirth methods promoted in the 1970s, most women welcome epidural anesthesia and even Cesarean deliveries. In Deliver Me from Pain, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it historically posed serious risk to mothers and newborns,