How the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choices Giving birth is a monumental event, not only in the personal life of the woman giving birth

The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill. Drawing on new archives and ne

The national C-section rate is at an all-time high of 31 percent. Are all these C-sections necessary, or are some of them done simply for the sake of convenienc

Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential

Discussing economic theory and English economic history from the eighteenth century until the late 1970s this volume discusses among other things fixed capital