Birth Wars
Delivering Safe Maternity in a Changing World
Will be published approx. on 28. January 2027
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-241-72092-9 (ISBN)
Description
Giving birth is everyone's business.
In this book, Leah Hazard takes us from luxurious birthing suites to solitary confinement cells, from border town clinics to refugee camps, freebirthing communities to wards dominated by algorithms, showing how childbirth provides a startling lens onto the biggest issues of our time. With clarity and curiosity, Hazard explores how inequality, migration, climate change and technology are shaping this universal yet intimate human experience, revealing the competing forces that are battling to technologize, moralise, commoditise and dominate the birth space in ways that have already transformed our bodies and our world.
In exposing the fragility of modern industrialized maternity care Birth Wars issues a warning and a rallying cry: highlighting the transformative - or destructive - power of this essential act, not only for the person giving birth, but also for the child who bears the lifelong effects of that day.
In this book, Leah Hazard takes us from luxurious birthing suites to solitary confinement cells, from border town clinics to refugee camps, freebirthing communities to wards dominated by algorithms, showing how childbirth provides a startling lens onto the biggest issues of our time. With clarity and curiosity, Hazard explores how inequality, migration, climate change and technology are shaping this universal yet intimate human experience, revealing the competing forces that are battling to technologize, moralise, commoditise and dominate the birth space in ways that have already transformed our bodies and our world.
In exposing the fragility of modern industrialized maternity care Birth Wars issues a warning and a rallying cry: highlighting the transformative - or destructive - power of this essential act, not only for the person giving birth, but also for the child who bears the lifelong effects of that day.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Hard Pushed * - * It is her capacity to love and give so personally to the many thousands of women she has worked with which imbues this book with its power -- Julia Samuel Brings the maternity ward to life in all its gory, humorous and touching glory * Telegraph *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
577 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-72092-9 (9780241720929)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
approx. 01/2027
Penguin
€14.99
Not yet available
Person
Leah Hazard is a serving NHS midwife. She is the author of The Father's Home Birth Handbook (2010), the Sunday Times bestseller Hard Pushed (2020) and Womb (2023).