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Professor explores controversies around homebirth

Professor explores controversies around homebirth

Melissa Cheyney and doctoral student Courtney Everson have uncovered a pattern of distrust – and sometimes outright antagonism – among physicians at hospitals and midwives.

Discovering family through research

In February 2007, my research was highlighted in OSU’s Terra Magazine. Of course, I made sure that my mom had a copy. As she looked over the article, she read the caption for the Edward Curtis photograph gracing the cover of the magazine. “Nuktaya?”, she asked, “There wasn’t anyone on the island named Nuktaya. I wonder if they meant, ‘Muktoyuk’, my father?”

Professor Appointed to State Board of Midwifery

Professor Appointed to State Board of Midwifery

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski recently appointed Oregon State University Assistant Professor of Anthropology Melissa Cheyney to the State Board of Direct Entry Midwifery.

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November 2009