Word: drugless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, among U.S. medical men, nonbelievers still outnumber believers in natural-childbirth methods, and many obstetricians tend to deride the evangelical fervor of the naturalists for drugless childbirth. But even doctors who are not advocates of natural childbirth are willing to acknowledge that there is good in what the naturalists preach. Nowadays, fewer mothers are anesthetized in delivery-a practice long scorned by naturalists. There is also a growing trend toward the type of prenatal preparation and exercise that naturalists have been strongly recommending as standard obstetrics for more than three decades...