Best Evidence on science-based maternity care Extensive archive ~ a "must read". This subdirectory has links to links to primary sources, lengthy excerpts, and citation lists documenting the scientific basis for physiological childbirth  as the universal standard of care for healthy women with normal pregnancies. Also journal articles on interventive and operative obstetrics >> induction, elective C-sections and political controversies, including ACOG's effort to eliminate planned home birth.

Other "Best Evidence" topics (1) community-based midwifery, and (2) political and historical forces that have inappropriately medicalized normal childbirth in the US (3) the politics that underlie organized medicine's push to make elective Cesarean surgery the new, 21st century standard of care for in a healthy women with normal pregnancies.  

 The BEST EVIDENCE subdirectory
also has links to the most important articles
 on the College of Midwives web site.   

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 Short cut to --> New View -- Historical background for how we developed
                                                      such a dysfunction health care system

Also Visit www.healthcare2point0.com  

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Midwifery and Health Care Reform
 

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