Cesarean Section
Wolf, Jacqueline H. (Professor of the History of Medicine and Chair, Ohio University)![Cesarean Section](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/245/24593293/CHSBZCOP0324593293.jpg)
Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously--from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth century, by the early twenty-first century, cesarean section was the most commonly performed surgery in th...