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Birth as an American Rite of Passage: Second Edition, With a New Preface (2nd Edition) by Robbie Davis-Floyd Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-520-22932-0 / 0520229320 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22932-7 / 9780520229327 Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth - routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary and even unhealthy? And why, in spite of the natural childbirth movement, has hospital birth become even more intensively technolo |