1: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Birth and Bonding; 2: Issues Relating to the Current Study; 3: The Process of Parturition; 4: The Newborn Infant; 5: Mother-Infant Interaction Immediately After Birth; 6: Mother-Infant Bonding at Birth; 7: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Birth and Bonding
Wenda R. Trevathan
-Trevathan carefully details the extraordinary series of challenges
that mothers and their infants face during the nine months of
pregnancy, the critical and arduous hours of labor and delivery,
and the long period during which the infant develops into an
independent individual... The special strength of this book is that
Trevathan not only describes the human birth process, but also
speculates about the evolutionary mechanisms that have shaped these
complex adaptations over time.- --Joan B. Silk, American Scientist
-Trevathan weaves together diverse information ranging from
physiochemical constraints on reproductive physiology to
cross-cultural studies of contemporary maternal behavior,
constructing a coherent image of the perinatal period throughout
hominid history... The breadth of information on primate
reproductive biology brought to bear in this book is impressive and
should make the volume interesting to scientists from many
disciplines.- --Debra S. Judge, The Quarterly Review of Biology
-Human Birth is a highly readable and scholarly integrative
overview of anthropological understandings of human birth...
Trevathan has not only written a state-of-the-science book on human
birth and mother-infant bonding from an anthropological
perspective, but she has also provided an integrated, biosocial
perspective of the evolutionary history of human birth and its
meaning in today's world.- --Jane B. Lancaster, American
Anthropologist -Human Birth is an eminently sensible book. I mean
this as high praise. It is not easy to be sensible about a process
that is so strongly both biological and cultural... This book is a
scholarly study which combines primate background, fossil evidence,
and ethological observations of human behavior. It is a welcome
contribution to anthropological literature, written for an audience
of specialists. However, the implications of the work are broader,
and apply to medical practice and the approaches of mothers to
childbirth.- --Alison Jolly, Medical Anthropology Quarterly -This
book is concerned with birthing, bonding, and the role of both
within an evolutionary context... [I]n an age when one in four
births is cesarean delivery, when in vitro fertilization,
transferred and frozen embryos, surrogate tugs-of-war, prenatal
fetal therapy, and other technological but sometimes dubious
marvels continue to be advanced, a book that is not an analysis of
the moral and ethical implications of biotechnology, but has as its
theme noninterventionist birth, is a novelty and worth reading.-
--Ethel Sloane, Gender and Society -The book is interestingly
written... [T]he author has struck out boldly to provide an
accounting of the putative role of birth and human evolution and
provides several hypotheses for future research to address.-
--Doris R. Entwisle, Journal of Marriage and Family
"Trevathan carefully details the extraordinary series of challenges
that mothers and their infants face during the nine months of
pregnancy, the critical and arduous hours of labor and delivery,
and the long period during which the infant develops into an
independent individual... The special strength of this book is that
Trevathan not only describes the human birth process, but also
speculates about the evolutionary mechanisms that have shaped these
complex adaptations over time." --Joan B. Silk, American Scientist
"Trevathan weaves together diverse information ranging from
physiochemical constraints on reproductive physiology to
cross-cultural studies of contemporary maternal behavior,
constructing a coherent image of the perinatal period throughout
hominid history... The breadth of information on primate
reproductive biology brought to bear in this book is impressive and
should make the volume interesting to scientists from many
disciplines." --Debra S. Judge, The Quarterly Review of Biology
"Human Birth is a highly readable and scholarly integrative
overview of anthropological understandings of human birth...
Trevathan has not only written a state-of-the-science book on human
birth and mother-infant bonding from an anthropological
perspective, but she has also provided an integrated, biosocial
perspective of the evolutionary history of human birth and its
meaning in today's world." --Jane B. Lancaster, American
Anthropologist "Human Birth is an eminently sensible book. I mean
this as high praise. It is not easy to be sensible about a process
that is so strongly both biological and cultural... This book is a
scholarly study which combines primate background, fossil evidence,
and ethological observations of human behavior. It is a welcome
contribution to anthropological literature, written for an audience
of specialists. However, the implications of the work are broader,
and apply to medical practice and the approaches of mothers to
childbirth." --Alison Jolly, Medical Anthropology Quarterly "This
book is concerned with birthing, bonding, and the role of both
within an evolutionary context... [I]n an age when one in four
births is cesarean delivery, when in vitro fertilization,
transferred and frozen embryos, surrogate tugs-of-war, prenatal
fetal therapy, and other technological but sometimes dubious
marvels continue to be advanced, a book that is not an analysis of
the moral and ethical implications of biotechnology, but has as its
theme noninterventionist birth, is a novelty and worth reading."
--Ethel Sloane, Gender and Society "The book is interestingly
written... [T]he author has struck out boldly to provide an
accounting of the putative role of birth and human evolution and
provides several hypotheses for future research to address."
--Doris R. Entwisle, Journal of Marriage and Family
"Trevathan carefully details the extraordinary series of challenges
that mothers and their infants face during the nine months of
pregnancy, the critical and arduous hours of labor and delivery,
and the long period during which the infant develops into an
independent individual... The special strength of this book is that
Trevathan not only describes the human birth process, but also
speculates about the evolutionary mechanisms that have shaped these
complex adaptations over time." --Joan B. Silk, American Scientist
"Trevathan weaves together diverse information ranging from
physiochemical constraints on reproductive physiology to
cross-cultural studies of contemporary maternal behavior,
constructing a coherent image of the perinatal period throughout
hominid history... The breadth of information on primate
reproductive biology brought to bear in this book is impressive and
should make the volume interesting to scientists from many
disciplines." --Debra S. Judge, The Quarterly Review of Biology
"Human Birth is a highly readable and scholarly integrative
overview of anthropological understandings of human birth...
Trevathan has not only written a state-of-the-science book on human
birth and mother-infant bonding from an anthropological
perspective, but she has also provided an integrated, biosocial
perspective of the evolutionary history of human birth and its
meaning in today's world." --Jane B. Lancaster, American
Anthropologist "Human Birth is an eminently sensible book. I mean
this as high praise. It is not easy to be sensible about a process
that is so strongly both biological and cultural... This book is a
scholarly study which combines primate background, fossil evidence,
and ethological observations of human behavior. It is a welcome
contribution to anthropological literature, written for an audience
of specialists. However, the implications of the work are broader,
and apply to medical practice and the approaches of mothers to
childbirth." --Alison Jolly, Medical Anthropology Quarterly "This
book is concerned with birthing, bonding, and the role of both
within an evolutionary context... [I]n an age when one in four
births is cesarean delivery, when in vitro fertilization,
transferred and frozen embryos, surrogate tugs-of-war, prenatal
fetal therapy, and other technological but sometimes dubious
marvels continue to be advanced, a book that is not an analysis of
the moral and ethical implications of biotechnology, but has as its
theme noninterventionist birth, is a novelty and worth reading."
--Ethel Sloane, Gender and Society "The book is interestingly
written... [T]he author has struck out boldly to provide an
accounting of the putative role of birth and human evolution and
provides several hypotheses for future research to address."
--Doris R. Entwisle, Journal of Marriage and Family
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