Birth Day A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth |
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| Author:
| Sloan, Mark |
| Series title: | Birth Day Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62095-365-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Publisher: | BookBaby
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school."So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, Mark Sloan has attended nearly 3,000 births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Birth Day Sloan draws on his personal and...
More Description"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school."So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, Mark Sloan has attended nearly 3,000 births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Birth Day Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture into a fascinating - and often funny - tapestry of this fundamental human passage.