Birth by design : pregnancy, maternity care, and midwifery in North America and Europe /
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| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: why maternity care is not medical care
- pt. I. The politics of maternity care
- Where to give birth? Politics and the place of birth
- The state and birth/The state of birth: maternal health policy in three countries
- Changing birth: interest groups and maternal care policy
- Reforming birth and (re)making midwifery in North America
- Looking within: race, class, and birth
- pt. II. Providing care
- Deciding who cares: winners and losers in the late twentieth century
- Designing midwives: a comparison of educational models
- Telling stories of midwives - Spoiling the pregnancy: prenatal diagnosis in the Netherlands
- pt. III. Society, technology, and practice
- Maternity care policies and maternity care practices: a tale of two Germanys
- Constructing risk: maternity care, law, and malpractice
- Obstetrical trajectories: on trading women/bodies for (home) birth
- What (and why) do women want? The desires of women and the design of maternity care.