title: Watching the clock: a mother's hope for a natural birth in a cesarean culture.
abstract: A physician and mother on giving birth in a culture that increasingly pushes women toward cesarean sections.
authors.affiliation: Carla Keirns (Carla.keirns@stonybrook.edu) is an assistant professor of preventive medicine, medicine, and history at Stony Brook University, in New York. She is also associate director for medical education for the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics; director of the Program on the History of Medicine; and research director in palliative medicine at the university.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Keirns
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D065026:Hope; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007751:Labor, Induced / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009321:Natural Childbirth / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D019564:Unnecessary Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: Cost of Health Care; Evidence-Based Medicine; Financing Health Care; Medicine/Clinical Issues; Personal Experience (-Narrative Matters-)