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1. From being to becoming: reconstructi ng childbirth knowledge
2. The role of pain in normal birth and t he empowerment of women
3. Birth and spirituality
Section 2: Aspects of normality
4. Normal birth: womens' stories
5 . Midwives' practices in eleven UK maternity units
6. Midwives co nstructing 'normal birth'
Section 3: Evidence
7. Risk, saf ety and the study of physiological birth
8. The early pushing urg e: practice and discourse
9. Foetal to neonatal transition: first , do no harm
10. Promoting normal birth: weighing the evidence
11. Aspects of a controversy: summary and debate
