BIRTH DAY. A PEDIATRICIAN EXPLORES THE SCIENCE, THE HISTORY, AND THE WONDER OF CHILDBIRTH - Tecno-Libro

i delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. i was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school. -from Birth Day So began Mark Sloan s three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. in Birth Day, Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture into a fascinating-and often funny-tapestry of this fundamental human passage. Birth Day takes the reader on a remarkable journey, from the dawn of human history to the quiet efficiency of a modern operating room. from Aristotle and Julius Caesar to a trailblazing, cross-dressing British army surgeon. from a recent past filled with the horrors of childbirth gone wrong to a present day, in which every pregnancy is expec