Birthing a movement : midwives, law, and the politics of reproductive care / Renée Ann Cramer.
Material type: TextDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781503614505
- KF2915 .B578 2021
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : knowing about legality and illegality in midwifery care in the United States -- History and status of midwives in the United States -- Modern and professional -- Mostly happy accidents -- Rights, rules, and regulation -- Catching babies, and catching hell -- Deep transformations, deep contradictions -- Conclusion : attending to birth in sociolegal scholarship.
"This is the first ethnography of American midwives and their clients and advocates. The culmination of more than a decade of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research, this project specifically interrogates the potential and pitfalls of legal and political campaigns for reproductive autonomy"--
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