Improving how individuals give birth and die in the United States requires reforming the regulatory, reimbursement, and legal structures that centralize care in

When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the a

"It reveals a belief in the incompetence of women with regard to childbirth and traces the effects on women of such a radically gendered notion. The author argu

This book provides an introduction to the sociological study of midwifery. The readings have been selected to highlight the interplay between midwifery and medi

"Partial Stories takes readers to Malawi, where roughly one in twenty women can expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complication, despite decades of safe