By Malcolm Gladwell, Richard E. Nisbett, Lee Ross
Author note: ahead by way of Malcolm Gladwell, writer of The Tipping Point
Publish 12 months note: First released in 1991
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How does the placement we're in impression the best way we behave and imagine? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we discover ourselves in considerably impacts our habit during this well timed reissue of 1 of social psychology's vintage textbooks.
Edition with a brand new foreword by way of Malcolm Gladwell.
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Until birth moved to the hospital, though, physicians could not dictate the number or type of people present for a birth or any of the circumstances of birth. In 1910 physicians and midwives attended equal numbers of births in the United States, but by 1930 midwives attended only 15 percent (Leavitt, Brought to Bed). Hospital births (which meant physician-attended births) accounted for 37 percent of births in 1936; 55 percent of births by 1940; and 90 percent of births by 1951 (Brodsky 132). Today approximately 99 percent of US births take place in hospitals, the vast majority with physicians attending.
Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz suggest that physicians attending home births in the nineteenth 26 Understanding Birth century chafed under the watch of many women and “were inclined to urge the removal” of all but a “nurse or friend who would obey the doctor’s orders” (5). Until birth moved to the hospital, though, physicians could not dictate the number or type of people present for a birth or any of the circumstances of birth. In 1910 physicians and midwives attended equal numbers of births in the United States, but by 1930 midwives attended only 15 percent (Leavitt, Brought to Bed).
A few women requested to read my completed work; I fulfilled those requests by emailing chapters to those women, which marked the end of our communication. Mapping Chapters: What Lies Ahead The book is organized to mimic a modern American woman’s experience of childbirth. Thus it begins with the medical and lay childbirth texts that shape dominant understandings of birth (chapter 1) and then follows an 16 Introduction informational/experiential arc of researching birth online and writing a birth plan (chapters 2 and 3) and of giving birth and sharing the story (chapters 4 and 5, as well as the epilogue).