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Providing an understanding of the impact of social circumstance on women giving birth, their babies and families in the 21st century, this title explains to mid

Greatly expanded, revised and updated, with an entirely new chapter on disability, The Social Context of Birth, Second Edition provides an essential understandi

"Greatly expanded, revised and updated, with an entirely new chapter on disability, The Social Context of Birth, Second Edition provides an essential understand

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