<p>Seminar, three hours. Using examples from history and anthropology, examination of variety of practices associated with childbirth over time and across cultures, addressing such themes as shifting relations among birthing women, midwives, and medical men and cultural meanings of birth. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

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Midwives, Mothers, and Medicine: Perspectives on History of Childbirth

HNRS 124

4 units