
Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (review)
It’s a rare academic history book that tempts me to binge-read. Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth is one of those special finds. Admittedly, Kline writes about a topic I find inherently fascinating: the re-emergence of home birth in the United States in the latter decades of the twentieth century and early decades of the twenty-first. Kline’s approach is typical of nuanced, heavily-researched academic history in many ways, with topical chapters that prov