
364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics
The Realignment
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The Role of Race in Medical Progress
I think medical school is a good thing especially relative to quack science and all that stuff you're having during the progressive era, but that could be taken too far. Birth isn't like getting knee surgery or getting your appendix out in that it's not a purely medical event right I mean first of all you can do it without any sort of like official medical toolyou can do it outside of a hospital whichlike is not recommended for surgery. And it's also this like cultural and emotional and family so much other stuff that's wrapped up into it... midwives really try to build these deep and long-term relationships with clients when they are giving birth. Because a lot of people do emerge
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