Get Me Out - A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

Making and having babies - what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver - have mystified women and men throughout human history. The insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science. Here is an entertaining must-read - an enlightening celebration of human life.

About the author

Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., the author of Aroused and Get Me Out, is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a lecturer at Yale University, and writer in residence at Yale Medical School. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Psychology Today blog, among others. She lives in New York.

Product details

• Authors: Randi Hutter Epstein, Epstein Randi Hutter
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2011
• EAN: 9780393339062
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33906-2
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 439 g
• Illustrations: 22 black-and-white illustrations
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth, popular science, SCIENCE / General, MEDICAL / History, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers, History of Medicine, Pregnancy, birth & baby care, Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice and issues