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Please read “Born Free: Unassisted Childbirth in North America” (PhD dissertation on UC)
From Rixa Freeze:

“My PhD dissertation about unassisted childbirth is online and publicly available!

I’ve been waiting for ProQuest to put my dissertation online. In the meantime, here is a link to the manuscript, Born Free: Unassisted Childbirth in North America (PDF document). It’s actually a more recent version than the one I submitted to ProQuest, since I have recently changed several typos and made a few minor corrections.

I’ll be periodically updateding the manuscript as I find more typos or small items that need clarification or correction. Like any published book, the dissertation is copyrighted so, obviously, no quoting passages or paraphrasing without an appropriate citation.

I would love to have detailed feedback, comments, and/or criticism on the manuscript. Feel free to email me about anything from typos to major conceptual or organizational issues. My next project is submitting a proposal to publishers, so I would especially appreciate input related to turning the academic dissertation into a book.

Happy reading!”

I’ve read portions of Rixas Dissertation and it is excellent. Here is the formal title of her dissertation:
Rixa Ann Spencer. “Born Free: Unassisted Childbirth in North America.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 2008.
I predict this is the first of many many inquiries into unassisted childbirth and the various reasons that parents are increasingly taking personal responsibility for the births of their children.

Jenny Hatch

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