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Book SynopsisAt a global scale, love hormones are now redundant in the critical period surrounding birth ... reasons for questions? Between 1970 and 1990, in many parts of the world, the rates of caesareans escalated from roughly 5% to roughly 25%. During this short phase of history, the father's participation became routine. Is there a link between these facts? Health care systems are on the way to collapsing. Should we go on focusing on the preventive and curative treatments of particular diseases or should we give a greater importance to the way our basic adaptive systems, involved in what we commonly call health, reach a high degree of maturity? These examples are sufficient to illustrate the "neo-Socratic attitude" of the author. Our contemporaries are constantly dealing with unprecedented situations. Question marks, therefore, can symbolise the current phase of our history. Throughout this book, radically new situations are analysed, before appropriate questions are phrased. At a time when people commonly debate on the long-term effects of human activities without considering the probable transformations of Homo, one cannot avoid a preliminary question: How to reach an audience made up of female and male open-minded people who are turned towards the future but have not yet realised that the important period surrounding birth has been radically transformed during the past decades? In the age of cultural blindness related to overspecialization, The Future of Homo is also a training tool to think across boundaries.
Trade Review"The Future of Homo contains tools, scientific updates and vital questions which could be able to create a substantialising turning point in humanity's global birth, health crisis, the increasing respectfulness crisis with Earth's ecosystem and in humanity's dramatic species-transformation crisis."; Hilda Garst; (Activist, WHO breastfeeding peer counsellor, Doula); "A brilliant masterpiece that provokes unexpected questions. Michel Odent leaves no stones unturned, with sharp precision does he target highly important subjects, Backed by solid research Dr Odent takes us on a journey through time, from hundreds of thousands of years in the past, to the distant future. From space elevators to language learned in the womb. Most of all the book leads to discussions and leaves us the readers to continue the explorations and research forward. The Future of Homo is a masterpiece. A highly important work for all of humanity."; Pia M G Sandstrom; Midwife;
Table of ContentsThe Broken Mirror; The Main Dish and the Sauce; Human Birth Preparation; The Future of Candles; Tackling an Epidemic; Pre-Labour Caesareans; Eclampsia: Lessons from a Human Disease; Homo Navigator; The Blind Men and the Elephant; Sexual Orientation; The Future of the Sorcerer's Apprentice; The Future of Lullabies; The Future of Transcendent Emotional States; From Language Absorption to Language Learning; The Future of Futurology; The Evolution of Evolutionary Thinking; The Future of Psychotherapy; The Future of Abbreviations; An Irreversible Conviction; The Epigenetic Clock; The Future of Socialised Birth; The Evolution of Humanity;
