Encyclopedia of childbearing : critical perspectives / edited by Barbara Katz Rothman.

includes index

Table of content
Abortion --
Adoption --
Amniocentesis --
Anti-Abortion Movement --
Apgar --
Art and Birth Metaphors --
Baby Diaries --
Baby Doe --
Baptism --
Bublical and Talmudic Images --
Birth Centers --
Birth Certificates --
The Birth Project --
The Birth Symbol --
Birthmothers --
Bodywork --
Bonding --
Bradley Method --
Braxton Hicks Contractions --
Breastfeeding --
Breath Control in Labor --
Brewer Pregnancy Diet --
Caul --
Central Closure Defects --
The Cervical Cap --
Cesarean Birth --
Chicken Pox in Pregnancy --
Childbearing in Prison --
Childbearing in Science Fiction --
Childbearing Practices in American History --
Childkeeping and Childbearing --
Chiropractic Care --
Chorionic Villus Sampling --
Circumcision --
Circumcision Surgery --
Colic --
Comfort Objects --
Common Complaints of Pregnancy --
Condoms --
Contraception --
Couvade: Anthropological Aspects --
Creation Stories in Western Culture --
Custody Determinations --
Daily Fetal Movement --
Deafness and Childbearing --
Decision Making --
Delayed Childbearing --
DeLee, Joseph Bolivar --
Depo-Provera --
DES --
Diabetes --
Diapers --
The Diaphragm --
Disability --
Domestic Violence and Pregnancy --
Donor Insemination --
Doula --
Dreams during Pregnancy --
Ectopic Pregnancy --
Egg Retrieval --
Electronic Fetal Monitoring --
Emotional Recovery --
Endometriosis --
Epidural Anesthesia --
Episiotomy --
Ethics Committees --
Eugenics --
Evolution of Human Birth --
Exercise Physiology in Pregnancy --
External Cephalic Version --
Eye Prophylaxis --
Failure to Thrive --
The Family Bed --
Family-Centered Maternity --
Fathers at Birth --
Feminist Analyses of Motherhood --
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome --
Fetal Movement --
Fetus --
Formula Marketing --
Genetic Counseling --
Genetics --
Genital Mutilation --
Genome Mapping --
Germany --
Goddess Imagery --
Herbal Treatments --
Hispanics --
HIV --
Home Birth --
Hospital Birth --
Hypertension --
Hypnosis for Childbirth --
Imaging Techniques --
In Vitro Fertilization for Male Infertility --
Infant Carriers --
Infanticide --
Infertility --
Informed Consent in Labor --
Israel --
IUD --
Japan --
Jaundice --
Labor --
Lactation --
Language of Birth --
Leboyer --
Legislation Affecting Maternity Care --
Lesbian Mothers --
Low Birth Weight --
Lullabies and Cradle Songs --
Male Factors in Pregnancy --
Maternal Mortality --
Maternal Serum --
Maternal Thinking --
Maternity Clothes --
Maternity Homes --
Matrescence and Patrescence --
Meconium --
Menstrual Extraction --
Mexico --
Midwife Licensing --
Midwife-Attended Births --
Midwifery --
Midwives --
Miscarriage --
Molar Pregnancy --
Motherhood as Transformation --
Naming Practices --
Natural Family Planning --
The Netherlands --
Newborn Pain --
Nipples --
Nonstress Tests --
Norplant --
Nurse-Midwifery --
Obstetric Drugs --
Obstetrics --
Pain Relief in Labor --
Pediatrics --
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease --
Pelvic Muscles --
The Perfect Baby --
Perineal Massage --
Photography and Birth --
The Pill --
Placenta --
Postpartum Emotional Disorders --
Posture for Labor and Birth --
Preconception Health --
Pregnancy after Pregnancy --
Pregnancy and Social Control --
Pregnancy and Work --
Pregnancy Loss --
Pregnancy Testing --
Pregnant Addicts --
The Pregnant Therapist --
Preimplantation Diagnosis --
Premature Birth --
Prematurity and Low Birth Weight --
Prenatal Care in the United States --
Prenatal Diagnosis --
Problem Pregnancy --
Psychoprophylactic Method --
Puerperal Fever --
Read Method --
Rebirth --
Refugee Women --
Relactation --
The Reproduction of Mothering --
Research Issues in Childbirth --
Retinopathy of Prematurity --
Rh Incompatibility --
Rights of the Pregnant Patient --
Risking --
Roe v. Wade --
Rooming-In --
Sanger --
Selective Abortion --
Sex Selection --
Sexuality and Pregnancy --
Sexually Transmitted Diseases --
Shoes for Babies --
Shoulder Dystocia --
Siblings at Birth --
Smoking in Pregnancy --
Social Science Research on American Childbirth --
Soviet Union --
Spock --
Stillbirth --
Stress in Pregnancy --
Stretch Marks --
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome --
Support Groups --
Support Groups for Infant Loss --
Swaddling --
Sweden --
Teenage Childbearing --
Thalidomide --
TORCH Syndrome --
Toys for Babies --
Twilight Sleep --
Twins --
Uganda --
Ultrasound in Obstetrics --
Umbilical Cord --
Underwater Birth --
Uterine Fibroids --
Vaccinations --
Vegetarianism and Pregnancy --
Violence against Pregnant Women --
Weaning Food --
Weaning --
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services --
Wet Nursing --
Witch Midwives --
Women's Health Movement --
Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life.