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Mandie Scamell is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at City and St Geoge's University of London, and specializes in risk and the maternity services in the UK. Her main area of work has been on midwifery care in the UK, with particular interests in clinical governance and institutionalized risk management technologies and in the culture and organization of maternity care. She has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals including Women and Birth, Birth and Midwifery. Kirstie Coxon is Reader in Maternity Care at University of Lancashire, UK. A midwife by background, she researches risk in maternity care, risk and decision-making, and sociocultural theories of risk. She is an author of Risk, Pregnancy and Childbirth (Routledge) and has written a range of articles and book chapters on risk, as well as being a guest editor for Special Issues of Midwifery and Health, Risk and Society journals on critical understandings of risk in maternity care. Raymond De Vries is Professor emeritus in the Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan. He is also Visiting Professor emeritus at CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. His interests include the social, ethical and policy issues associated with the medicalization of pregnancy and birth. He is author of A Pleasing Birth: Midwifery and Maternity Care in the Netherlands (Temple University Press).

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