The rhetoric of midwifery: Conflicts and conversations in the minnesota home birth community in the 1990s

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 383-401

  Lay, Mary M ^a   Wahlstrom, Billie J ^a   Brown, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0039182250     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335639609384164     Document Type: Article

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