The rhetoric of midwifery gender knowledge and power lay mary m isbn 9780813527789 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The rhetoric of midwifery gender knowledge and power lay mary m isbn 9780813527796 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The rhetoric of midwifery offers new insights into issues of gender and power within the context of our present day medical system as a point of departure mary m lay analyzes the public discussion over non academically trained or direct entry midwives within minnesota particularly the state held public hearings about licensing traditional midwives home birth parents nurses physicians and attorneys to illustrate various points of view in addition the author details the history . The rhetoric of midwifery gender knowledge and power new brunswick rutgers up 2000 print this book is an extended rhetorical analysis of a set of hearings about licensing practices for direct entry midwives midwives who enter the profession without a background in medicine in minnesota that took place in the 1990s looking to the history of midwifery in the state legal language surrounding midwifery medical discourses of birth and pregnancy testimonies given by