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Speaker Update Michel Odent

Michel Odent Photo For several decades Michel Odent has been instrumental in influencing the history of childbirth and health research. As a researcher he founded the Primal Health Research Center in London (UK), which focuses upon the long-term consequences of early experiences. More

Update since 2006 Conference

Each ‘Primal Health Research Newsletter’ (published quarterly) has been an opportunity to go deeper into specific themes:

  • The long-term consequences of how we are born.
  • Breast cancer from a Primal Health Research perspective.
  • The function of joy in pregnancy
  • Is falling in love pathological?
  • Eye-to eye contact from a primal health research perspective.
  • The hidden male postnatal depression
  • New criteria to evaluate the practices of obstetrics and midwifery.
  • Dispelling the disempowering birth vocabulary
  • Autism and anorexia nervosa (Two facets of the same disease?).
  • Vaccinations from a primal health research perspective.

Has written a book called ‘The Functions of the Orgasms: the Highways to Transcendence’ (to be published end of January 2009)

Has co-authored three academic books:

  • Two chapters in ‘Der Kaiserschnitt’(=The caesarean), a collective book published in German first. Edited by Prof Michael Stark (from Berlin), the ‘father’ of the new fast simplified technique of c-section. Titles of Michel’s chapters: ‘Simplified strategies in the age of simplified techniques of caesareans’ and ‘The future of a civilisation born by caesarean’.
  • One chapter in ‘Birth Territory and midwifery guardianship’. Edited by Kathleen Fahy, Maralyn Foureur, and Carolyn Hastie. Title of Michel’s chapter: the besieged territory of the obstetrician’.
  • One chapter in ‘Examination of the newborn and neonatal health’. Edited by Lorna Davies and Sharon McDonald. Title of Michel’s chapter: ‘The neonatal period and beyond: short- and long-term consequences of intrapartum events’.
Medical articles mentioned in www.Pubmed.com since July 2006:
  • In vitro activity of an aqueous allicin extract and a novel allicin topical gel formulation against Lancefield group B streptococci. Cutler RR, Odent M, Hajj-Ahmad H, Maharjan S, Bennett NJ, Josling PD, Ball V, Hatton P, Dall'Antonia M.J Antimicrob Chemother. 2009 Jan;63(1):151-4. Epub 2008 Nov 11.
  • Dispelling the disempowering birth vocabulary. Odent M. Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2008 Autumn;(87):22-3, 65-6.
  • All about polyclinics: Should "policlinics" replace "polyclinics"? Odent MR.BMJ. 2008 May 24;336(7654):1146.
  • The future of obstetric technology. Odent M. Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2008 Spring;(85):20-2. Review.
  • Neonatal tetanus. Odent M. Lancet. 2008 Feb 2;371(9610):385-6.
  • When love hormones become useless. Odent M. Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2007 Winter;(84):22, 66.
  • The function of joy in pregnancy. Odent M. Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2007 Autumn;(83):46-7, 69. Review.
  • Breech birth from a primal health research perspective. Odent M. Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2007 Autumn;(83):22, 65.
  • Antisocial behaviours from a primal health research perspective. Odent M. Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2007 Spring;(81):12-5, 62-3. Review.
  • Primal health: history of a concept. Odent M. Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2007 Spring;(81):11, 62.
  • Should midwives re-invent the amnioscope? Odent M. Midwifery Today Int Midwife. 2006 Winter;(80):7, 66.
  • Premature rupture of membranes and Madrid terrorist attack. Santos-Leal E, Vidart-Aragon JA, Coronado-Martin P, Herraiz-Martinez MA, Odent MR. Birth. 2006 Dec;33(4):341.
  • Vitamin C and vitamin E in pregnant women at risk of pre-eclampsia. Odent M. Lancet. 2006 Jul 15;368(9531):199.

Study in progress at Alexander Fleming hospital, Rio de Janeiro: effects on birth outcomes of food supplements (sardines sandwiches) in a low-income population living in favellas.

Restructuring the Primal Health Research Database and offering free direct access (www.primalhealthresearch.com). Updating the contents of the database.

Creating www.wombecology.com (about pre- and peri-natal ecology).

Lectures, conferences, seminars, and workshops in most western European countries, Eastern Europe (Russia, Lithuania), Israel, North America, Latin America (Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil), Singapore, Australia, New Zealand.

Participation in a project of complementary midwifery school in Rio de Janeiro.

Occasionally attending home births in London (always with the same doula).



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