Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., is recognised as a world
authority on oxytocin. Her research takes place at the famed
Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and at the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, where she is Professor of
Physiology.
She is the author of more than 450 scientific papers and the books,
She and He, The Oxytocin Factor, The Hormone of Closeness,
Oxytocin: the Biological Guide to Motherhood, and co-author of
Attachment to Pets.
Dr. Uvnäs Moberg lectures widely in Europe and the United States.
Her work has been influential in a variety of fields, including
physiology, women’s health, obstetrics, psychology, animal
husbandry, physical therapy, pediatrics and child development.
She is a mother of four children, and she lives in Djursholm,
Sweden.
Michel Odent MD was in charge of the surgical unit and the
maternity unit at the Pithiviers (France) state hospital from
1962–85.
For many years he was the only doctor overseeing around 1,000
births a year. He is the author of the first article in the medical
literature about the initiation of lactation during the hour
following birth (1977), the first article about the use of birthing
pools (1983), and the first article applying the ‘gate control
theory of pain’ to obstetrics (1975).
He created the Primal Health Research database
(www.primalhealthresearch.com) and he has been a member of the
Professional Advisory Board of La Leche League International for 40
years. He is a Visiting Professor at the Odessa National Medical
University and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Brasilia.
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