History's labour

History's labour; Reading birth and death: a history of obstetric thinking ; Jo Murphy-Lawless; Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis; 1999; 352 pp. US$ 39.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-253-33475-6; US$ 19.95 (paper) ISBN 0-253-21258-8 [FIGURE 1][1] ![Figure][2] Figure 1. In