✍ Scribed by Michel Odent
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
What is the future of the human capacity to give birth? What is the future of underused physiological functions? Should we expect an evolution of Homo sapiens in relation to the way babies are born? Can fast-developing scientific disciplines induce a new awareness?
In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at the future of birth, renowned obstetrician Michel Odent takes the question 'Do we need midwives?' as a starting point. If a paradigm shift occurs, what kind of midwives shall we need? For how long can we go on neutralizing the laws of natural selection? Are human beings able to raise vital questions before it is too late? Unprecedented situations should first and foremost inspire appropriate questions.
1 A ludicrous question
2 A sensible question
Pre-midwifery societies
Biased knowledge
The specifically human handicap
3 A useless question
Towards a new understanding of normality
Preliminary signs of a new normality
Pre-labour versus in-labour caesareans
What if…?
4 primalhealthresearch.com versus NIH
From knowledge to awareness
A useful tool
Concordant results
Genesis of non-communicable diseases
Enlarging our horizon
Limits to primal health research
5 The driving force
Epigenetics
Informational substances and their receptors
Evolutionary biology
Twenty-first-century bacteriology
6 Bridges between scientific perspectives
Autism
Obesity
Interdisciplinarity
7 Meanwhile
Timing of the operation
Immediate skin-to-skin contact
Entering the world of microbes
Ironies
8 Homo Ludens from a primal health research perspective
From Plato to Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg
The primal health research perspective
9 At the edge of the precipice
A twentieth-century scientific discovery
Immediate practical implications
A transitory phase of our history?
10 The gaps between science and tradition
Countless examples
An unexpected way to learn about the crucial divergence
Another basic physiological concept
The still dominant paradigm
11 In pain thou shalt bring forth children
12 Will the symbiotic revolution take place?
‘Symbiosis’ as the antithesis of ‘Domination’
Reinventing Fire... and Birth
Flirting with utopia
13 What is the sex of angels?
Lesson from an analogy
After the paradigm shift
Addendum (To be read after July 2030): Can humanity survive medicine?
A premature question
Neutralised laws of natural selection
A vicious circle
Genetically modified human beings
Different orders of magnitude
References
Index
Pregnancy & Childbirth;Women’s Health;Health, Fitness & Dieting;Evolution;Fossils;Game Theory;Genetics;Molecular Biology;Organic;Paleontology;Science & Math
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