Robbie Davis Floyd is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. She is author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage (1992) and co-editor of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge:Cross-Cultural Perspectives.P. Sven Arvidson is Assistnat Professor of Philosophy at the College of Mount St. Joseph, Ohio and is at work on Chaos andBoundlessness: Reality, Morality and Limits inConsciousness.

• Part I The Nature of Intuition; Chapter 1 Intuition, Marcie Boucouvalas; Chapter 2 The Nature of Intuition, Charles Laughlin; Chapter 3 Looking Intuit, P. Sven Arvidson; Chapter 4 Sacred Land—Sacred Stories, Joe Sheridan, Anne Pineault; Chapter 5 Wheels Within Wheels, Building the Earth, Guy Burneko; Part II Intuition, Science, and Praxis; Chapter 6 Intuition in the Development of Scientific Theory and Practice, Evelyn H. Monsay; Chapter 7 Subjectivity and Intuition in the Scientific Method, Brenda J. Dunne; Chapter 8 Thought, Action, and Intuition in Practice-Oriented Disciplines, Bob Harbort; Chapter 9 Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Homebirth, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Elizabeth Davis; Chapter 10 Standing by Process, Lucia Roncalli;