The production of authoritative knowledge in American prenatal care

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 113-131

  Browner, Carole H ^a   Press, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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