Teneramente Licia Quotes & Sayings

The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for barely two centuries. This male-derived framework for care is a product of the industrial revolution. As anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd has described in detail, underlying the technocratic mode of care of our own time is an assumption that the human body is a machine and that the female body in particular is a machine full of shortcomings and defects. Pregnancy and labor are seen as illnesses, which, in order not to be harmful to mother or baby, must be treated with drugs and medical equipment. Within the techno-medical model of birth, some medical intervention is considered necessary for every birth, and birth is safe only in retrospect. — Ina May Gaskin

imitation really is the most sincere form of flattery. But — Stephen King

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it? — Ryan Lilly

A land of levity is a land of guilt. — Edward Young

Death is only one way of dying; living partially, living fearfully, is our more common, daily collusion with death. — James Hollis