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“Reed points out that birth is a transformative event; it is of ancient, really visceral significance to the person who goes through it. She talks a lot about rites of passage and ritual and points out that medical interventions are also rites of passage and ritual, and they’re not necessarily evil or bad, but we have to understand that they too have their own ritual significance, they too carry meaning and have consequences that we need to question and challenge quite carefully. So I think Reed has a really good, considered approach to this central tension.” Read more...
Leah Hazard, Medical Scientist