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Women and babies need protection from the dangers of normal birth ideology
Author(s) -
Page Lesley
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0528.14668
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , argument (complex analysis) , ideology , excellence , health care , medicine , government (linguistics) , psychology , psychiatry , political science , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy
According to Professor Dietz the issue is always the same: ‘a culture of midwives [and sometimes obstetricians] promoting normal childbirth “at any cost’’—which means late intervention, or none at all.' He claims that morbidity and mortality have been modern medicine's top priorities and that the Cumberlege Report wants to reduce interventions further in order to reduce the cost of medical interventions.