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- Title
Book Review: No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States by Kristin Haltinner.
- Authors
Leyser-Whalen, Ophra
- Abstract
Each chapter contains some good background and/or history of the topic at hand; some of which is so interesting that I would have liked more in places, although I do understand the space constraints in attempting to write a broad-ranging book. In I No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States i , Dr. Kristin Haltinner examines problematic institutional and ideological roots embedded within U.S. obstetric care that lead to injurious and traumatic short- and long-term effects on people during and after birth. For example, given that the sample of women in the book are all white, there seemed to be no interview data that spoke to the ongoing problem of racism in health care, yet Dr. Haltinner mentions several aspects of obstetric care and racism in her discussion of larger issues found in the United States.
- Subjects
RURAL Americans; SOCIAL scientists; NEONATAL intensive care units; MEDICAL personnel; RURAL population
- Publication
Gender & Society, 2022, Vol 36, Issue 4, p611
- ISSN
0891-2432
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1177/08912432221088916