The Maternity care crisis in California / Marsden Wagner ; interviewed and produced by Naomi Goffman.

Doctor Marsden Wagner of the World Health Organization discusses the maternity care crisis in California, how midwives are crucial to good maternal care the world over, and gives a scathing indictment of the California Medical Association for it's continual opposition to midwifery. The CMA position, Wagner argues, is based not on medical arguments but strictly on economic and political factors and reflects the monetary preocupation of a monopolistic profession.|THE MATERNITY CARE CRISIS IN CALIFORNIA / Marsden Wagner| interviewed and produced by Naomi Goffman. - SERIES: Midwifery 1992| no. 3 - Doctor Marsden Wagner of the World Health Organization discusses the maternity care crisis in California, how midwives are crucial to good maternal care the world over, and gives a scathing indictment of the California Medical Association for it's continual opposition to midwifery. The CMA position, Wagner argues, is based not on medical arguments but strictly on economic and political factors and reflects the monetary preocupation of a monopolistic profession. - BROADCAST: KPFK, 8 Jan. 1992.