Epiduralized Birth and Nurse-Midwifery: Childbirth in the United States. A Medical EthnographyThere exists an abundance of books about childbirth. What has been missing is a work that describes American childbirth from an ethnographic standpoint, utilizing the rich, insightful data that can only be derived from real life observations of childbirth. This new ethnography, Epiduralized Birth and Nurse Midwifery: Childbirth in the United States, helps to meet that need. It examines the state of maternity care in the United States through the lens