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The Medical Delivery Business: Health Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order

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This dense, nuanced and thoroughly researched book is an invaluable resource for those of us involved in critiques and reform of health care. It provides the history and rationale behind the corporatization of medicine -- its aims, structure and practices -- especially as such standardization adversely affects women giving birth, and babies, and the ability of our health care system to meet the needs of all people. It should be required reading for health care activists, professionals wishing to improve health care, and medical sociologists. I have been involved in the reform of standard medical care for childbearing women so that it becomes less medicalized, more woman-oriented and truly meets their needs, and understand far better why the system is so recalcitrant, not amenable to change. A clarifying dose of reality!