The baby or the bathwater: Which one should be discarded?

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 306-307

  Grunebaum, Amos ^a   Chervenak, Frank A ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH; DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; WATER BIRTH;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMERSION; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 3543008965     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2004.056     Document Type: Note

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