PRIMAL HEALTH RESEARCH
A NEW ERA IN HEALTH RESEARCH
Published quarterly by Primal Health Research Centre
Charity No.328090
72, Savernake Road, LondonNW3 2JR
WINTER 2008 Vol 16. No3
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(Free access to the Primal Health Research Data Bank)
SPECIAL ISSUE
THE MID-ATLANTIC CONFERENCE
ON BIRTH AND PRIMAL HEALTH RESEARCH
26th- 28th February 2010
The Canary Islands Convention Centre. Las Palmas
~ latitude 28º! ~
The main objective of this conference is to phrase new questions at a time when rapid technical and scientific advances are leading to a crossroads in the history of childbirth and the history of humanity.
According to plausible extrapolations, within some decades the majority of human beings will be born by the abdominal route. And in the case of vaginal births, the replacement of natural hormones with pharmacological substitutes will almost be the rule. Since the behavioural effects of hormones involved in childbirth have been recently clarified, we can interpret and summarise this new situation by claiming that human ingenuity has made "love hormones" useless in a highly critical period of reproductive life.
The participation of Prof Michael Stark from Berlin - as the "father" of the simplified, fast and easy technique of caesarean, and as the founder of the "NewEuropeanSurgicalAcademy" - will symbolise the ascendancy of technical advances.
The participation of Prof Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, from Stockholm – as an expert in the behavioural effects of oxytocin – will symbolise the most significant recent scientific advances.
The participation of Anthony Costello, Professor of International Health at the London Institute of Child Health, will underline the need for questions raised at a global level.
The participation of Dr Mario Merialdi, coordinator for maternal and perinatal health at WHO, will suggest the importance of "global action" as a new watchword.
The location of the conference in the middle of the ocean is a way to encourage participants to come from all continents.
The term "Primal Health Research" is used to favour long-term thinking. "Primal Health Research" is a developing branch of epidemiology that brings together studies exploring correlations between what happens during the "Primal period" (fetal life, perinatal period and year following birth) and what occurs later on in life in terms of health and personality traits. Such studies are compiled in the "Primal Health Research Database" ().
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This conference is open to all health professionals interested in the future of humanity.
Registration at
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Friday 26 (20:00)
Opening session with a renowned authority as our guest speaker.
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PLENARY SESSIONS
(In the prestigious Symphony Hall: seating capacity 1,656)
Saturday 27.
9:00 Welcoming address. Prof Garcia Hernandez (Las Palmas), Heloisa Lessa (Brasil), Dr Michel Odent (France-UK).
9:30 Prof Michael Stark (Germany) : "The Misgav Ladach Caesarean Section – Method and 15 Years of International Experience".
10:45 Prof Uvnäs-Moberg (Stockholm) : "oxytocin, the inner guide to motherhood"
12:00 coffee break. Visit of stands.
12:30: Dr Michel Odent (France-UK): "New criteria to evaluate the practices of obstetrics/midwifery".
13:45: lunch break. Visit stands.
15:15 Prof Anthony Costello (UK): "Progress in maternal and newborn care in developing countries".
16:30 Prof Sylvie Odent (France): "A new era in prenatal medicine".
17:30: Heloisa Lessa. Closing remarks.
18:00: Visit stands
Sunday 28
9:30 Dr Mario Merialdi (WHO Geneva - Italy). "Global action: a twenty first century watchword".
10:45 Dr Michel Odent (France - UK): "The prime Inconvenient Truth".
11:45 coffee break. Visit stands.
12:15 Round table: "Childbirth in 2050". Prof Michael Stark, Prof Uvnäs-Moberg, Prof Anthony Costello, Dr Mario Merialdi, Jan Tritten, Ina May Gaskin, Isabel Castillo, Peggy O'Mara, Naoli Vinaver, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Sheila Kitzinger. Moderator: Laura Uplinger.
13:45 Closing remarks.Prof Garcia Hernandez, Heloisa Lessa, Dr Michel Odent.
WORKSHOPS
Friday 26(10:00 to 13:00 and 14:30 to 17:30)
About 30 workshops on a great diversity of topics such as:
-To cut or not to cut, that is the question – Episiotomy in the age of evidence-based obstetrics? (with Michael Stark, as the founder of the NewEuropeanSurgicalAcademy).
-To cut or not to cut…the cord. That is another question (with Robin Lim, as a midwife in Bali).
-How do ward routines influence behaviour/health of mother, infant, and coming generations (with Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg), as Professor of physiology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm).
-Transcendent emotional states in childbirth (with Jenny Hall, as editor of “The Practising Midwife”, and Cathy Daub, as the author of “Birthing in the Spirit”).
-Writing about mothering (roundtable with Jan Tritten, Peggy O'Mara, Sheila Kitzinger, Isabel Castillo, Ina May Gaskin).
-Birth, infant feeding, and international health (with Anthony Costello, as Professor of International Health).
-The priorities of "Improving Maternal and Perinatal Health WHO team" (with Mario Merialdi).
-The anthropology of childbirth (with Robbie Davis Floyd).
-Medical genetics for dummies (with Sylvie Odent, as Professor of medical genetics).
-Being born too soon – Unexpected challenge, unexpected stress for babies-mother and doctors. Real advances or just innovations? Present and future. With Jorge César Martínez, as Professor of neonatology (Argentina).
-Primary midwifery care in and outside hospital setting (with Mary Zwart, as a midwife from Holland).
-Learning from unusual normality: salutogenesis, complexity and uncertainty in maternity care (with Soo Downe, as Professor and Head of Research, Faculty of Health, University of Central Lancashire)
-Global politics for the protection of prenatal life (with Ionna Mari, from Athens, President of OMAEP: World Organisation of Prenatal Education Associations).
-Colostrum: from anthropology to public health (with Pascal Odent. Institute of Child Health. London)
-Normal Birth matters (with Maria Helena Bastos, as an obstetrician with a PhD in midwifery).
- More details will be provided in the future on workshops about infant feeding, initiation of lactation, birth around the world, midwifery, primal health research, childbirth in the Canary Islands, ecstatic/orgasmic states associated with different episodes of human sexual life, etc.
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