Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Birth matters: the importance of birth and the logic of American maternity care
  • Law matters: tort regimes and reproductive health regimes
  • Myths of malpractice: liability risk in American maternity care
  • What's the rush?: tort laws and elective early-term births
  • The machine that goes ping!: technology fetishism and the electronic fetal monitor
  • If in doubt, cut it out: malpractice and cesareans
  • Choice matters: reproductive rights regimes and VBAC [vaginal birth after cesareans]
  • Reproductive regimes: the legal environment and maternity care in the United States.