Conception: nurse-midwives and the professionalization of childbirth
Early labor pains, 1925-1940
Eastern Kentucky's frontier nursing service: Mary Breckinridge's mission, survival strategies, and race
New York City's Maternity Center Association: educational opportunities and urban constraints
Active labor, 1940-1960
Transitions: new directions, new limitations
Traditions: home birth in a high-tech age
Don't push: struggling to create a political strategy and professional identity
Epilogue: afterbirth: learning from the past, looking to the future.