Intro -- DOCTORING MEDICAL GOVERNANCE: MEDICAL SELF-REGULATION IN TRANSITION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DEDICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- FROM ANCIENT BEGINNINGS TO THE 1858 MEDICAL ACT -- Ancient Beginnings -- Galen's Humors -- Galenic Medicine and the Christian Worldview -- The Enlightenment and...

We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...