Throughout history there have been midwives and there have been physicians. Midwifery is and always has been separate and distinct from the practice of medicine. It should not be included in the definition of the practice of medicine in Missouri law. The word midwife means "with woman."
Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors, and when applied to the Bible its algorithm teased out distinct writerly voices in the holy book.