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