“Did you know that one in three infants is born of a caesarean section?” “Did you know that most cesarean sections are not medically needed to give birth to the infant?” “Did you know that Julius Caesar was born of a caesarean section?” The first two questions are true, but regarding the last question, it is false. This, that many people believe is true, is actually false. In the time of Julius Caesar, women who used the caesarean section as their birthing method almost always did not survive the operation. Caesar’s mother was very much present in his life, thus experts say that he was not born of a caesarean section (Epstein 115). Although Julius Caesar is not a significant factor in the contribution to medical birthing technology and methods, the caesarean section is. It is one of the first unnatural methods in having a child and has led to to a multitude of changes in the world of conception and birth. It is a big moment in starting this world-wide revolution. Technology has revolutionized the journey of the birth of a child in both positive and negative ways.
Child birth is inevitable. It is necessary in order to keep the existence of the human race. A countless number of mothers have had to experience the fear and agonizing pain of labor because there was not any invented technology to soothe them. Although, women did have explicit information about sex, pregnancy tests, abortions and contraceptives. Before technology, medical authors were scribes-not experts- who noted how to speed up the labor process, what things are good to eat and drink during labor, and what women should tell themselves during the whole process. There were not any specialists who were certain that their knowledge was the truth. (Epstein 5-6)...
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of melancholia are more comprehensible when it’s understood that the patient's bitterness falls alike on the ego itself as it does the object of his love and hate. In melancholia, as well as in other narcissistic conditions, a feature of emotional life is strikingly shown which, since the time of Bleuler, has been designated as “ambivalence.” By this, it’s meant that hostile and affectionate feelings are directed against one and the same person. From the analysis of the narcissistic conditions,