Reading response: How Childbirth Went Industrial
In the article “How Childbirth Went Industrial” by Atul Gawande, Gawande explains how childbirth has gone from a natural process of life to a industrial process where you have to have surgery to take out the baby. In the first pages, Gawande give an example of a woman named Elizabeth Rourke. She was going through labor and wanted a natural birth. However, in the 39th hour of labor, Rourke had surgery to give birth to her baby. Cases like this happen every time. In the article, Gawande describe human birth. He also describes the things that can go wrong during a natural childbirth. Because of the different problems that can happen during childbirth, different obsteritican made their names by
In the article “How Childbirth Went Industrial” by Atul Gawande, Gawande explains how childbirth has gone from a natural process of life to a industrial process where you have to have surgery to take out the baby. In the first pages, Gawande give an example of a woman named Elizabeth Rourke. She was going through labor and wanted a natural birth. However, in the 39th hour of labor, Rourke had surgery to give birth to her baby. Cases like this happen every time. In the article, Gawande describe human birth. He also describes the things that can go wrong during a natural childbirth. Because of the different problems that can happen during childbirth, different obsteritican made their names by