Barbara Katz Rothman

"Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers- strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength." - Barbara Katz Rothman

Biomedical Imperialism

For a long time I’ve been thinking about going beyond what my colleagues in sociology now routinely call ‘the biomedical industrial complex,...

Offline: How others see us

Surprisingly good review from the Editor in Chief of The Lancet. Click here to read .

The Page 99 Test does "The Biomedical Empire"

Fun feature on my new book, " The Biomedical Empire ." Click here to read on The Page 99 Test blog . And a brief mention on the Ca...

The best books on the ever-more-timely topic of death and dying

A wonderful new website for books - here is my contribution. Click here to read.

My Finnish Fulbright Fantasy

I was honored to be the recipient of the Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Distinguished Chair in Health Sciences 2018-2019. This Fulbright,...

Air rights and local politics

Not all of my writing is strictly sociology. I have been working with the Lower East Side “ East River Park Action Organization ” to save t...

African American Midwifery: A History and a Lament

It's a great source of pleasure to be working now with my former student, my 'progeny' Keisha Goode. We did a presentation of ou...

Just what was missing! Artificial wombs!

Click here to read on NPR...

Comments on the endless seemingly hopeless fight for parental leave in the United States

Click here to read... Update : Click here for a brief Q&A with The Graduate Center, CUNY.

The Cost of Medicalized Contraception: Now More than Ever

As we face the Trumpocalypse, I keep thinking of what Pauline Bart used to say: "They can't legislate away skills." We are f...

A Cynic Mourns

Current thoughts, posted on the NYU Press Blog. Click here to read .

Blog Post for "Books Combined"

Academics have to do a lot of writing. And I do, I like writing, I even teach a 'writing for publication' seminar for sociology doc...

Contemporary Sociology Review & Response

Contemporary Sociology is my own communities journal, and this review there, of all places, rather hurt. The reviewer didn't 'get...

BUN Reviews

Updated October 2017 - Journal of American Culture, Book Review, Summer 2017 The Journal of American Culture review can be read here . ...

Food, Birth, and the Future

"The Future We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggle for a Better World" is a web forum intended to orient the broader debate fo...

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