Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Map and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter one Phase One Midwife-Assisted Home Births, 1948–1953 16
7. Chapter two Phase Two Transitioning toward Hosp ital Births, 1954–1958 49
8. Chapter three Phase Three Physician-Assisted Hospital Births, 1959–1965 84
9. Chapter four Phase Four Medicalized Births, 1966–1979 107
10. Chapter five Phase Five Novoparteras and a Technocratic, Litigation-Based Model of Birth, 1980–2000 138
11. Conclusion and Epilogue 172
12. Notes 181
13. Bibliography 205
14. Index 223