Ways of knowing about birth : mothers, midwives, medicine, & birth activism / selected writings by Robbie Davis-Floyd and colleagues.
There is no other living scholar with Davis-Floyd's solid roots, activism, and scholarly achievements on the combined subjects of childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and medicine. Ways of Knowing about Birth brings together an astounding array of her most popular and essential works, all updated...
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Long Grove, Illinois :
Waveland Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- The technocratic, humanistic, and holistic paradigms of birth and health care
- The rituals of hospital birth: enacting and transmitting the technocratic model
- The technocratic body and organic body: hegemony and heresy in women's birth choices
- Medical training as technocratic initiation
- The paradigm shift of humanistic and holistic obstetricians: the "Good Guys and Girls" of Brazil
- American midwifery: a brief anthropological overview
- Intuition as authoritative knowledge in midwifery and homebirth
- Daughter of time: the postmodern midwife
- Mutual accommodation or biomedical hegemony? A brief anthropological overview of global issues in midwifery
- Homebirth emergencies in the US and Mexico: the trouble with transport
- The midwifery model of care: anthropological perspectives
- renegade midwives: assets or liabilities?
- Anthropology and birth activism: what do we know?
- Working with anthropology in policy and practice: an activist's experiences
- Creating the International MotherBaby Childbirth (IMBCI): anthropologically informed activism.