Purpose Given the persistence of racial health disparities, scholars have called for
investigations into structural origins of health inequity and deeper engagement with theory …

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

Background: Strikingly little research has considered how autistic adults experience
pregnancy and parenthood, two key transition periods in adult development with potentially …

How do health professionals with fundamentally different philosophies toward health, and
different status levels, manage power in their work relationships? This paper argues that …

Despite long‐existing calls to address alarming racial/ethnic gaps in severe maternal
morbidity (SMM), research that considers the impact of intersecting social inequities on SMM …

Background Much of the emerging research on the effects of SARS‐CoV‐2 disease (COVID‐
19) on pregnant people and their infants has been clinical, devoting little attention to how the …

In response to COVID-19, many doulas, including community-based doulas (CBDs), have
shifted to virtual doula work, placing aspects of doula care online. CBDs typically center …

Context Community‐based birth doulas support pregnant women, transgender men, and
gender non‐binary individuals during the perinatal period and provide essential services …

This commentary responds to Yolonda Wilson's article “Is Trust Enough? Anti‐Black Racism
and the Perception of Black Vaccine 'Hesitancy'” by connecting mistrust to the phenomenon …

Background The field of maternal health has advanced significantly over the past decades.
However, the United States continues to have poor outcomes in comparison with other …