Teachers: Marsden Wagner, Mary Kroeger and Robin Lim Content: Listen to this tape to learn about the conditions for birth in other countries, including midwifery autonomy, safe motherhood programs, c-section rates, maternal mortality rates, pre- and post-World War II models of birth in Japan, hemorrhaging, infection, eclampsia, unsafe abortion, obstructed labor, malaria, birth kits, lifesaving skills, HIV, the cost of birth, goiter, fetal mortality rates, lack of equipment and lack of understanding of the Western model of medicine.
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