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"Whether you are a proponent of 'natural' or 'prepared' childbirth, Davis-Floyd's exhaustive look at the rituals of the modern hospital variety is eye-opening and informative at least, and at best a call to action." Tara Aronson, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review