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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.