In this study we attempt to understand the relatively expensive and medicalized maternity care service industry in the United States by exploring the regulatory environment around alternatives to hospital births. We argue that a variety of existing regulations—restrictive licensing...

Motl Brody, a 12 year old Hasidic Jew, died late last year in Washington. During his last days, his life and death were the subject of intense media scrutiny, judicial proceedings, and bioethical commentary. His transition from life to death was marked, not by the private mourning of friends and...