👉 "West Virginia’s history exemplifies the dual nature of MCH legislation in the early 1900s, bringing much-needed resources and attention to maternal and infant health, but accelerating the decline of midwifery through regulatory oversight and the medicalization of birth..." rdcu.be/ewnST
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Regulating the Midwife: Power, Public Health, and the Decline of Traditional Midwifery in West Virginia, 1881–1929