1. Introduction -- 2. Technocratic Ideology and the Medical Marginalization of Motherhood and Birth -- 3. The Medical Model -- 4. The Midwifery Approach to Birth -- 5. Free-Standing Birth Centers -- 6. Case Study: The Founding of a Free-Standing Birth Center -- 7. The Operation of the Birth Center -- 8. The Birth Center and the Medical Model: Accommodation and Resistance -- 9. Reappropriating Birth
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-164) and index
