Disrupting Delivery: From Chamberlen to Shaw

For over four centuries, obstetric forceps have remained virtually unchanged-a guarded family secret passed down by the Chamberlen brothers in 17th-century Europe, later adapted by men who shaped modern obstetrics without the voices of the women giving birth. But in  Disrupting Delivery , Adonica Shaw rewrites that narrative. A maternal health advocate and doula, Shaw brings her lived experience to bear in the redesign of one of medicine's oldest surgical tools. With a visionary blend of hi