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9 11/16 X 7 7/16 in Section 1: Ways of Seeing

1. From being to becoming: reconstructi ng childbirth knowledge

2. The role of pain in normal birth and t he empowerment of women

3. Birth and spirituality

Section 2: Aspects of normality

4. Normal birth: womens' stories

5 . Midwives' practices in eleven UK maternity units

6. Midwives co nstructing 'normal birth'

Section 3: Evidence

7. Risk, saf ety and the study of physiological birth

8. The early pushing urg e: practice and discourse

9. Foetal to neonatal transition: first , do no harm

10. Promoting normal birth: weighing the evidence

11. Aspects of a controversy: summary and debate

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