Contents:
Introduction
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Patient, Technique, and Voice in American Obstetrics
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Robert A. Hahn
Article
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The Growth of Medical Authority: Technology and Morals in Turn-of-the-Century Obstetrics
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Judith Walzer Leavitt
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Divisions of Labor: Obstetrician, Woman, and Society in Williams Obstetrics, 19031985
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Robert A. Hahn
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Commentary on Hahn's Divisions of Labor
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Michael Newton
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Obstetric Training As a Rite of Passage
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Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
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Knowledge, Practice, and Power: Court-Ordered Cesarean Sections
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Susan Irwin
Brigitte Jordan
Book Reviews
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Culture, Society and Menstruation. Virginia L. Olesen and Nancy Fugate Woods
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Emily Martin
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Human Birth: An Evolutionary Perspective. Wenda Trevathan.
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Alison Jolly
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Clinical Anthropology: A New Approach to American Health Problems?Demitri B. Shimkin and Peggy Golde
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Nora J. Krantzler
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Policies, Plans, and People: Culture and Health Development in Nepal. Judith Justice.
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Robert A. Rubinstein
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Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China. Arthur Kleinman.
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Karen Hanson
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The Culture-Bound Syndromes: Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest. Ronald C. Simons and Charles C. Hughes
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David Landy