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Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

Marsden Wagner

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

Tags: midwifery

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About Marsden Wagner

Marsden Wagner (23 February 1930 – 27 April 2014), was a perinatologist and perinatal epidemiologist from California who served as a Director of Maternal and Child Health for the California State Health Department, Director of the University of Copenhagen-UCLA Health Research Center, and Director of Women's and Children's Health for the World Health Organization. He was an outspoken supporter of midwifery.