![]() ![]() In entering hospital to give birth a woman becomes part of that great and growing debate about who is having the baby: the mother, the medical profession, the hospital, the family, and the state. ![]() But the issue of who controls birth is part of childbirth today in a more general sense. It reveals that certain themes run through the accounts of birth gathered in the course of research: the problem of recognition, the clash of expectations and reality, and the question of control. ![]() This chapter considers the experience of childbirth. ![]()
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