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Cover. Elizabeth Gilmore, president of the National College of Midwifery, cares for a pregnant woman in 1999 in New Mexico, where an estimated 1% of annual births are midwife assisted. Now retired, Gilmore delivered more than 3000 babies during her 31-year career. Contrasting with the increasing number of cesarean deliveries performed to prevent potential birth-related trauma and complications, the Midwives Model of Care (http://midwivesmodelofcare.org) advocates minimal use of technological interventions during childbirth and referral to an obstetrician only when required. Respecting a woman's right to determine how to give birth and in keeping with the concept of "social childbirth," midwives provide services in homes as well as in clinic and hospital settings and strive to integrate the mother's physical, psychological, and social well-being into the birth process.

Photo courtesy of Dorie Hageler, a documentary photographer living in Taos, New Mexico. Cover concept and selection by Aleisha Kropf, Robert Sember, and Sofia Gruskin.

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