Birth... a week in images (Day Six)

Day Five:

Caption: The tools

"As a society’s medical system mirrors its core values in microcosm, so the evolution of medicine can influence the evolution of the wider culture. We must ask, Who do we want to make ourselves become through the kinds of health care we create?" 

Excerpt from: The Technocratic, Humanistic, and Holistic Paradigms of Childbirth
by Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD

This article appears in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics,

Vol 75,Supplement No. 1, pp. S5-S23, November 2001.

EFM

Home Birth Neonatal Resuscitation Equipment