Birth rites and rights / Fatemeh Ebtehaj [and others] ; on behalf of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group.

Oxford : Hart, 2011.

xv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Becoming a mother : continuities and discontinuities over three decades / Ann Oakley, Meg Wiggins, Vicki Strange, Mary Sawtell, and Helen Austerberry -- Changing medical birth rites in Britain 1970-2010 / Françoise Barbira Freedman -- Are doctors still improving childbirth? / Susan Bewley and Lin Foo -- Midwife-mother relationship / Mavis Kirkham -- Loneliness of status : the legal and moral significance of birth / Jonathan Herring -- Refusing medical treatment during pregnancy and birth : ethical and legal issues / Rosamund Scott -- Consequences for preterm infants of antenatal glucocorticoid treatment / Alison Forhead and Abigail Fowden -- Fathers, birth, and law / Richard Collier -- Recording births : from the reformation to the Welfare Reform Act / Rebecca Probert -- Changing form of birth registration / Julie McCandless -- Birthright had nothing to do with it : royal inheritance in the Middle Ages / Francis Woodman -- Infanticide and insanity in 19th century England / Shelley Day Sclater -- Explaining the trend towards older first time mothers : a life course perspective / Irenee Daly -- Too late or too many : dilemmas facing the modern woman seeking help with fertility / Peter Braude and Tarek El-Toukhy -- IVF birth data presentation : its impact on clinical practice and patient choice / Emily Jackson and Hossam Abdalla.

Includes bibliographical references and index.