The reason American women over-medicalize childbirth has its roots in racial segregation - Quartz

QuartzThe reason American women over-medicalize childbirth has its roots in racial segregationQuartzDoctors also took on their main rivals: midwives. In 1912, JW Williams, a professor of gynecology, published a paper titled “Medical education and the midwife problem in the United States” in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommending ...