THE MID-ATLANTIC CONFERENCE

PRIMAL HEALTH RESEARCH


A NEW ERA IN HEALTH RESEARCH


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WINTER 2008 Vol 16. No3



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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 "New European Surgical Academy" - 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" (www.primalhealthresearch.com).



This conference is open to all health professionals interested in the future of humanity.





Registration at



www.obstare.com

(ridiculously low fare until December 31, 2008)




Friday 26 (20:00)



Opening session with a renowned authority as our guest speaker.







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 New European Surgical Academy).

- 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).

- 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).

- 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 colostrum, 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.