BOOK REVIEW | Birth without ritual: the meaning of the placenta

Ways of Being Born takes us into the history of birth in Africa... but it becomes so much more than that. It asks us to reconsider something we think we know intimately: how we enter this world!

It asks us to look again at the mother, the midwife, the hospital, the elder, the placenta, the ritual and ultimately, at ourselves.

Helping us remember that there is more than one way of knowing, Dr Mmatshilo Motsei joins us to unpack her offering.

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