Human Labor & Birth Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in China. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Previous edition copyright © 1986 by Appleton-Century-Crofts.
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ISBN 978-0-07-174028-9
MHID 0-07-174028-7
This book was set in ITC Berkeley Oldstyle Std Book by Cenveo Publisher Services.
The editors were Alyssa K. Fried and Kim J. Davis.
The production supervisor was Sherri Souffrance.
Project management was provided by Nidhi Chopra, Cenveo Publisher Services.
The text designer was Diana Andrews. The cover designer was Mary McKeon.
China Translation & Printing Services, Ltd. was the printer and binder.
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