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| Title: |
The Farmer and the Obstetrician (hardback) |
| Published: |
1st June 2002 |
| ISBN: |
1 85343 5651 |
| Price: |
£13.95 | $29.95 |
\"I heartily recommend Odent\'s new book to not only perinatal professionals but anyone who eats and was born\" Jeannine Parvati-Baker
In The Farmer and the Obstetrician Michel Odent shows how farming and childbirth have been industrialised side by side during the twentieth century - with dramatic and disturbing consequences.
The similarities are striking. In both cases innovations have been presented as the long awaited solution to an old problem:
- The advent of powerful synthetic insecticides has overnight dramatically reduced the costs and increased agricultural productivity.
- Similarly, the advent of the modern safe technique of caesarean section has offered serious new reasons to create gigantic obstetrics departments.
- In both speres a small number of sceptics voiced doubts and fears concerning the negative long-term consequences of the widespread use of novel, little tested practices.
- Although these repeated warnings initially went unheeded, they have motivated the development of \'alternative\' approaches and movements.
At the turn of the new century the history of industrialised farming has suddenly speeded up. A collective global awareness has been sparked by a series of disasters, particularly mad cow and foot and mouth diseases. Industrialised childbirth has not - yet - reached the same phase of its history, but the parallels between these two industries suggest that there is more to link the farmer and the obstetrician than we had all realised...
Michel Odent is the author of The Scientification of Love, also published by Free Association Books. |
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