Table of Contents

PARTIAL CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; General Introduction (Van Teijlingen el al.); Sociological Factors Affecting the Medicalisation of Midwifery (Lowis & McCafffery); Part One: Toward Sociology Of Midwifery; Part Two: Medicalisation Of Childbirth And Midwifery; Introduction: History of Midwifery (Van Teijlingen); Midwives & maternity care in the Roman world; (French); Early Modern Midwifery A Case Study (Weisner); Louyse Bourgeois and the Emergence of Modern Midwifery (Kalisch el al.); Is Childbirth any Place for a Woman? The Decline of Midwifery in Eighteenth-Century England (Schnorrenberg); Perrette The Midwife... (Forbes); The Decline of The Midwife (Donnison); 'The Different Stages of the Elimination of Midwives in Quebec' (Laforce); 'Midwife Regulation, Education, & Practice in the Netherlands'... (Van Lieburg & Marland); Midwifery in Contemporary Western Societies (Porter); Models of Midwifery Care... (McKay); Maternity Home Care Assistants in the Netherlands (Van Teijlingen); The Role and Responsibilities of the Midwife in Scotland (Askham & Barbour); Domino Delivery... (Beck); Changing Childbirth? (Porter); An exception to the Canadian Case: Autonomous Midwifery at the Margins (Benoit); Medical Models and Midwifery: The Cultural Experience of Birth (Lichtman); Index.

About the Author

Edwin van Teijlingen, George Lowis, Peter McCaffery, and Maureen Porter, Editors