Teachers: Marsden Wagner, M.D., Ina May Gaskin, Jan Tritten, Jill Cohen and Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ph.D. Content: Marsden cites revealing statistics on racial disparity on maternal mortality, and the income differences between doctors and midwives. Ina May stresses the importance of sharing birth stories with other women so the normalcy of birth will be absorbed into our consciousness, and empowering women to take birth back as their possession and to demand changes in their own health care. Jan asks us to work for autonomy and plant seeds of change in the young. Robbie discusses prevailing cultural attitudes, and Jill sums it all up.
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