The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don't Tell You What Corporations Try to Sell You and How to Put Your Pregnancy Childbirth and Baby Before Their Bottom Line

About this book

In the tradition of Jessica Mitfords The American Way of Death an eye-opening work of investigative journalism that challenges our common wisdom about pregnancy childbirth and the first year of a babys life showing how the mother and childs wellbeing are often undermined by corporate profit margins and the private interests of the medical community. Why despite our state-of-the-art medical technology does the United States have among the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the industrialized world? Why do pregnant women who are planning to breastfeed receive free samples of infant formula from American obstetricians? Why are American newborns given a vaccine at birth against hepatitis B a sexually transmitted disease? The Business of Baby an eye-opening work of investigative journalism exposes how our current cultural practices during pregnancy childbirth and the first year of a babys life are not based on the best evidence or the most modern science revealing how American moms and their babies are being undermined by corporate interests. An illuminating combination of meticulous research and in-depth interviews with parents doctors midwives nurses health care administrators and scientists Marguliss impassioned and eloquent critique is shocking groundbreaking and revelatory. The Business of Baby arms parents with the information they need to make informed decisions about their own health and the health of their infants.