Tag Archives: obstetrics

Substance Use Disorder By Pregnant Persons Should be Treated as a Complex Medical Condition, Not Punished as a Moral Failing
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Posted on by January 8, 2020
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Elizabeth Ferries-Rowe (MD; MS Medical Ethics) is Chief of Service in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Eskenazi Health and has worked to expand Eskenazi’s Centering Pregnancy program. It is hardly breaking news that the United States is in … Continue reading →

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Of births and beds: thinking spatially about obstetric violence
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Posted on by November 4, 2016
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After giving birth last year in Colombia, I spoke with a (male) Colombian doctor friend of mine about my experience. We were talking about what in Spanish are called “partos verticales”, or “vertical” births  – births in which the mother … Continue reading →

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