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Article

14 Apr 2013

Author:
Steve Weinberg, Houston Chronicle [USA]

Review: The Business of Baby [USA]

In “The Business of Baby,” Margulis shows that physicians, hospitals, baby-food manufacturers, diaper suppliers and others regularly place financial profits above healthy children and at-risk mothers...Pregnancy and childbirth and infant care seem like they should be out of bounds when it comes to greed and corruption. There is no harm in physicians and hospitals and providers of baby products earning a profit. But unconscionable profits, particularly when the health of the unborn, infants and mothers might be harmed?