Lauren Hall explains how governments cause birth and death to become over medicalized.

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Today’s book: The Medicalization of Birth and Death

Also by Lauren Hall: Family and the Politics of Moderation: Private Life, Public Goods, and the Rebirth of Social Individualism

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Lauren’s recommendations: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry, And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life, Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America

How Doctors Die

Medicine, healthcare, regulation, certificate of need law, American Medical Association, c-section, hospice, palliative care, over treatment