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Birth Day

by Mark Sloan
Mark Sloan
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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, the author has attended nearly three thousand 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. Some of Birth Day's many topics include: • The first five minutes of life—scuba divers, astronauts, and the amazing adaptations that transform a fetus into an air-breathing, out-in-the-world baby. • Cesarean section—a look at its origins, its future, and how it came to be the most frequently performed operation in American hospitals. • The five senses at birth—does light enter the womb? How loud is it in there? What is a newborn baby searching for with those first anxious glances?
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Publisher: Oasis Audio Edition: Abridged

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  • ISBN: 9781608145089
  • File size: 285799 KB
  • Release date: March 31, 2009
  • Duration: 09:55:24

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  • ISBN: 9781608145089
  • File size: 286149 KB
  • Release date: March 31, 2009
  • Duration: 09:55:24
  • Number of parts: 11
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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, the author has attended nearly three thousand 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. Some of Birth Day's many topics include: • The first five minutes of life—scuba divers, astronauts, and the amazing adaptations that transform a fetus into an air-breathing, out-in-the-world baby. • Cesarean section—a look at its origins, its future, and how it came to be the most frequently performed operation in American hospitals. • The five senses at birth—does light enter the womb? How loud is it in there? What is a newborn baby searching for with those first anxious glances?
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Medical Nonfiction
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    Publisher:
    Oasis Audio
    Edition:
    Abridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781608145089
    File size: 285799 KB
    Release date: March 31, 2009
    Duration: 09:55:24

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781608145089
    File size: 286149 KB
    Release date: March 31, 2009
    Duration: 09:55:24
    Number of parts: 11

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