About Margaret MacDonald

Margaret MacDonald is associate professor of anthropology at York University. Her first book, At Work in the Field of Birth (Vanderbilt, 2007) is a cultural account of the body, technology, and the meaning of choice in midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from a marginal grassroots social movement to a regulated health profession. Her current ethnographic research explores connections between global maternal health policy and local sites of practice in Senegal, questioning received wisdom about technology, tradition, and human rights.