Caption: Ina May Gaskin, Credit: Michael Bennetts, Wikipedia
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Ina May Gaskin 

Ina May Gaskin

Series: Out of Bounds Radio Show
From: Out of Bounds
Length: 00:29:00

03/23/11: Ina May Gaskin has practiced for nearly forty years at The Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tenn, which she founded in 1971. The center is noted for its low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality. She is the only midwife for whom an obstetric maneuver has been named (the Gaskin maneuver). Read the full description.

Inamaygaskin_small March 23, 2011: Ina May Gaskin has practiced for nearly forty years at The Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tenn, which she founded in 1971. The center is noted for its low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality. She is the only midwife for whom an obstetric maneuver has been named (the Gaskin maneuver).

She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth...which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections...and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Author of several books, her most recent is called Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta.

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Piece Description

March 23, 2011: Ina May Gaskin has practiced for nearly forty years at The Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tenn, which she founded in 1971. The center is noted for its low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality. She is the only midwife for whom an obstetric maneuver has been named (the Gaskin maneuver).

She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth...which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections...and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Author of several books, her most recent is called Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta.

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