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The rhetoric of midwifery : gender, knowledge, and power / Mary M. Lay.

Title
The rhetoric of midwifery : gender, knowledge, and power / Mary M. Lay.
Author
Lay, Mary M.
Publication
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2000.

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Description
x, 239 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Licensure
  • Midwifery
  • Midwifery > Minnesota
  • Midwifery > Political aspects > Minnesota
  • Midwifery > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Midwives > Legal status, laws, etc. > Minnesota
  • Minnesota
  • Politics
  • Social Environment
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1 Current Debate over Direct-Entry Midwifery in the United States 1 -- 2 Rhetorical Analysis and the Midwifery Debates 20 -- 3 Rhetorical History of Midwifery 43 -- 4 Minnesota Midwifery Study Advisory Group: Professional Jurisdictions and Boundary Spanning 77 -- 5 Licensing Rules and Regulations: Normalizing the Practice of Midwifery 101 -- 6 Jurisdictional Boundaries: Claiming Authority over Scientific Discourse and Knowledge 131 -- 7 Issues of Gender and Power: The Rhetoric of Direct-Entry Midwifery 170.
ISBN
  • 0813527783 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813527791 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^99043562^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library