Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index.
Birth shock -- Birth contrasts -- Institutional power in a high tech birth culture : how an anthropologist sees birth -- Managing the reproductive machine -- Sexual abuse and birth -- Flashbacks, panic attacks and nightmares -- Pain -- Other ways of handling pain -- "If only I hadn't" -- The baby -- The partner -- Moving forward -- Pregnant again.
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Birth Crisis draws on the thousands of hours Sheila has listened to women's wide-ranging experiences and her knowledge of the maternity system. She reveals the causes of this suffering, which has, until now, been brushed under the carpet.