Tabla de Contenidos: “…From hospital to home -- Back to bed : from hospital to home obstetrics in the city of Chicago -- Middle-class midwifery : transforming birth practices in suburban Washington, DC -- Psychedelic birth : the emergence of the hippie midwife -- The Bowland bust : medicine and the law in Santa Cruz, California -- From El Paso to Lexington : the formation of the Midwives Alliance of North America -- From professionalization to education : the creation of the Seattle Midwifery School -- Epilogue : in search of common ground…”