Healthy Medicine #176: The Business of Baby

Dr Zieve talks with writer Jennifer Margulis about how commercial factors and conventional thinking affect our choices in pregnancy and childbirth. Jennifer Margulis PhD, a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, is an award-winning travel, culture, and parenting writer, the author of The Business of Baby: What Doctors Donít Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby BEFORE Their Bottom Line. She has been a contributing editor at Mothering magazine and her writing has appeared in many of the nationís most respected publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian magazine. She was awarded a highly competitive and prestigious Fulbright fellowship in 2006. Read more at jennifermargulis.net.