Mothers and maternity policies in the 20th century, Jane Lewis; a maternity service for England and Wales - local authority maternity care in the inter-war period in Oxfordshire and Tottenham, Elizabeth Peretz; the engineering of childbirth - a new obstetric programme as reflected in British obstetric textbooks, 1960-1980, Eckart Schwarz; maintaining the independence of the midwifery profession - a continuing struggle, Sarah Robinson; strategies of the early childbirth movement - a case study of the National Childbirth Trust, Jenny Kitzinger; obstetric analgesia and the control of childbirth in 20th century Britain, Jennifer Beinart; learning about birth - parenthood and sex education in English secondary schools, Shirley Prendergast; labour relations - midwives and doctors on the labour ward, Jenny Kitzinger et al; parents and new-born babies in the labour ward, Jo Garcia and Sally Garforth; women's experiences of Caesarean delivery, Ann Oakley; fathers - the emergence of a new consumer group, Rosaline Barbour; recent debate on the place of birth, Rona Campbell; finding out about the views and experiences of maternity service users, Ann Jacoby and Ann Cartwright.
