Technology as a Last Resort in Home Birth: The Work of Lay Midwives
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 30 (3) , 272-283
- https://doi.org/10.2307/800353
Abstract
This paper considers an example of demedicalization in U.S. society by examining how 10 lay midwives described their work in attending home births. CKeywords
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