Karen L. Michaelson is an associate professor of anthropology and health sciences at Eastern Washington University where she holds an administrative position. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

"An excellent contribution. . . . This anthology, written in academically correct style with excellent collected source notes, is . . . accessible and exciting to general readers interested in the area. Recommended for libraries and comprehensive or women's bookstores, particularly in communities with colleges or with active alternative childbirth activities." - Small Press Book Review

• Childbirth in America: A Brief History and Contemporary Issues by Karen L. Michaelson Decisions in Pregnancy Poor Women, Poor Outcomes: Social Class and Reproductive Health by Ellen S. Lazarus Adequate Prenatal Care and Reproductive Outcome by Marilyn Poland Social Support for Pregnancy and Childbearing Among Disadvantaged Blacks in an American Inner City by Margaret S. Boone Khmer Prenatal Health Practices and the American Clinical Experience by Carolyn Sargent and John Marcucci The Decision to Have or Not to Have Amniocenteses for Prenatal Diagnosis by Barbara Katz Rothman The Power of 'Positive' Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis by Rayna Rapp Birth Place/Birth Style Differences in Cultural Expectations of the Perceived Painfulness of Childbirth by Janice M. Morse and Caroline Park Medical Models and Midwifery: The Cultural Experience of Birth by Ronnie Lichtman Technology and the Context of Childbirth: A Comparason of Two Hospital Settings by Karen L. Michaelson and Barbara Alvin Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd Babies in Crisis The Cultural Context of Decision Making for Catastrophically Ill Newborns: The Case of Baby Jane Doe by Betty Wolder Levin The Family in Newborn Intensive Care by Jeanne Harley Guillemin The Artificial Womb: Social and Sensory Environments of Low Birthweight Infants by Lucille F. Newman Becoming a Parent Childbirth in a Bicultural Community: Attitudinal and Behavioral Variation by Wenda R. Trevathan The Interactions of Fathers and Newborns by Linda H. Briesemeister and Beth A. Haines Delayed Accomplishments: Family Formation among Older First-Time Parents by Linda M. Whiteford and Michael Sharinus Bringing Up Baby: Expectations and Reality in the Early Postpartum by Karen L. Michaelson What Determines the Duration of Breastfeeding? by Janice M. Morse, Margaret J. Harrison, and Karen M. Williams Bibliography Index

Karen L. Michaelson is an associate professor of anthropology and health sciences at Eastern Washington University where she holds an administrative position. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

"An excellent contribution. . . . This anthology, written in academically correct style with excellent collected source notes, is . . . accessible and exciting to general readers interested in the area. Recommended for libraries and comprehensive or women's bookstores, particularly in communities with colleges or with active alternative childbirth activities." - Small Press Book Review

• Childbirth in America: A Brief History and Contemporary Issues by Karen L. Michaelson Decisions in Pregnancy Poor Women, Poor Outcomes: Social Class and Reproductive Health by Ellen S. Lazarus Adequate Prenatal Care and Reproductive Outcome by Marilyn Poland Social Support for Pregnancy and Childbearing Among Disadvantaged Blacks in an American Inner City by Margaret S. Boone Khmer Prenatal Health Practices and the American Clinical Experience by Carolyn Sargent and John Marcucci The Decision to Have or Not to Have Amniocenteses for Prenatal Diagnosis by Barbara Katz Rothman The Power of 'Positive' Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis by Rayna Rapp Birth Place/Birth Style Differences in Cultural Expectations of the Perceived Painfulness of Childbirth by Janice M. Morse and Caroline Park Medical Models and Midwifery: The Cultural Experience of Birth by Ronnie Lichtman Technology and the Context of Childbirth: A Comparason of Two Hospital Settings by Karen L. Michaelson and Barbara Alvin Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd Babies in Crisis The Cultural Context of Decision Making for Catastrophically Ill Newborns: The Case of Baby Jane Doe by Betty Wolder Levin The Family in Newborn Intensive Care by Jeanne Harley Guillemin The Artificial Womb: Social and Sensory Environments of Low Birthweight Infants by Lucille F. Newman Becoming a Parent Childbirth in a Bicultural Community: Attitudinal and Behavioral Variation by Wenda R. Trevathan The Interactions of Fathers and Newborns by Linda H. Briesemeister and Beth A. Haines Delayed Accomplishments: Family Formation among Older First-Time Parents by Linda M. Whiteford and Michael Sharinus Bringing Up Baby: Expectations and Reality in the Early Postpartum by Karen L. Michaelson What Determines the Duration of Breastfeeding? by Janice M. Morse, Margaret J. Harrison, and Karen M. Williams Bibliography Index

Karen L. Michaelson is an associate professor of anthropology and health sciences at Eastern Washington University where she holds an administrative position. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

"An excellent contribution. . . . This anthology, written in academically correct style with excellent collected source notes, is . . . accessible and exciting to general readers interested in the area. Recommended for libraries and comprehensive or women's bookstores, particularly in communities with colleges or with active alternative childbirth activities." - Small Press Book Review

• Childbirth in America: A Brief History and Contemporary Issues by Karen L. Michaelson Decisions in Pregnancy Poor Women, Poor Outcomes: Social Class and Reproductive Health by Ellen S. Lazarus Adequate Prenatal Care and Reproductive Outcome by Marilyn Poland Social Support for Pregnancy and Childbearing Among Disadvantaged Blacks in an American Inner City by Margaret S. Boone Khmer Prenatal Health Practices and the American Clinical Experience by Carolyn Sargent and John Marcucci The Decision to Have or Not to Have Amniocenteses for Prenatal Diagnosis by Barbara Katz Rothman The Power of 'Positive' Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis by Rayna Rapp Birth Place/Birth Style Differences in Cultural Expectations of the Perceived Painfulness of Childbirth by Janice M. Morse and Caroline Park Medical Models and Midwifery: The Cultural Experience of Birth by Ronnie Lichtman Technology and the Context of Childbirth: A Comparason of Two Hospital Settings by Karen L. Michaelson and Barbara Alvin Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd Babies in Crisis The Cultural Context of Decision Making for Catastrophically Ill Newborns: The Case of Baby Jane Doe by Betty Wolder Levin The Family in Newborn Intensive Care by Jeanne Harley Guillemin The Artificial Womb: Social and Sensory Environments of Low Birthweight Infants by Lucille F. Newman Becoming a Parent Childbirth in a Bicultural Community: Attitudinal and Behavioral Variation by Wenda R. Trevathan The Interactions of Fathers and Newborns by Linda H. Briesemeister and Beth A. Haines Delayed Accomplishments: Family Formation among Older First-Time Parents by Linda M. Whiteford and Michael Sharinus Bringing Up Baby: Expectations and Reality in the Early Postpartum by Karen L. Michaelson What Determines the Duration of Breastfeeding? by Janice M. Morse, Margaret J. Harrison, and Karen M. Williams Bibliography Index