Articles on Childbirth and Obstetrics

• On Pregnancy
• On Childbirth
• On Culture and Birth: The Technocratic Imperative
• The Rituals of American Hospital Birth              (click here for Spanish translation)
• Obstetric Training as a Rite of Passage    (click here for Spanish translation)
• The Technocratic Model of Birth     (click here for Spanish translation)
• The Technocratic, Humanistic, and Holistic Models of Birth   (click here for Spanish translation)
• Anthropology and Birth Activism: What Do We Know?
• Changing Childbirth in Latin America
• Birth and the Big Bad Wolf: An Evolutionary Perspective

Articles on Midwifery

Articles on Reproduction and the New Reproductive Technologies

Articles on Biomedicine

and Alternative Medicine

Articles on Futures Planning, Space, and Science and Technology Studies

•  Storying Corporate Futures: The Shell Scenarios
•  Commercializing Outer Space: The SATWG Stories
•  Inner Space and Outer Space as Cyberspace? Technocratizing Womb and World
•  Oral History Interview with Guy Thibodaux, rocket scientist
•  Joint Oral History Interview with Guy Thibodaux, rocket scientist, Max Faget, father of spacecraft design, and Paul Purser, former manager, Langley Research Center
•  Bucky Balls, Fullerenes, and the Future: An Oral History Interview with Professor Richard E. Smalley,”inventor of nanotechnology

 Articles on Death

•  Dying as Medical Performance: The Oncologist as Charon
•  Windows in Space/Time: A Personal Perspective on Birth and Death
•  The Art of Grieving Gracefully

Article on a Texas Madam

•  ‘Landlady’ at La Grange: A Social Interactional Analysis of the Folklore of a Texas Madam