The medicalization of birth and death /Lauren K. Hall.

Hall, Lauren K., 1980-

The medicalization of birth and death /Lauren K. Hall. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Medicalized birth and the current of centralized care -- Medicalized death and the current of centralized care -- Safe harbors for demedicalized birth and death -- Navigating the regulation tributary -- Swept away on the reimbursement headwater -- Caught in the riptide of risk -- Black birth and death in the medicalized rapids.



9781421433349


Social medicine.
Death.
Cost control.
Medicalization
Healthcare Disparities
Parturition
Death
Personal Autonomy
Cost Control


Electronic Books.

RA418 / .M435 2019