How Midwives Accomplish Natural Birth: Managing Risk and Balancing Expectations
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 35 (2) , 95-110
- https://doi.org/10.2307/800734
Abstract
A considerable body of research has been directed towards identifying the impediments to natural childbirth where much has been made of restraints byKeywords
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