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lost and found at tiny thing
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toughts on childbirth...
"childbirth is a danger - it's what we think of as a dangerous natural process, that is made safer and better when we alter it with technology. And we dissect it into components, and alter each one of those, and channel it through technology - we feel like we have taken this dangerous natural process and made it safe. That is, actually, not the fact - it's not the case - what we've done, most of the time, with technological interventions, we mess up what would have worked fine, had it been left alone and nurtured. But, we don't tell ourselves that story - we tell ourselves the story about "all those pioneer women who died in childbirth, and look at all the women we're saving," because we're expressing our massive cultural belief in the promise of technology through technologizing birth."
interview with robbie davis-floyd.
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