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Childbirth and authoritative knowledge : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Carolyn F. Sargent ; with a foreword by Rayna Rapp.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.
Description
xii, 510 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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GT2460 .C37 1997
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Birth customs
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Childbirth
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Cross-cultural studies
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Labor (Obstetrics)
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Cross-cultural studies
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Davis-Floyd, Robbie
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Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the anthropology of birth / Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn F. Sargent
Authoritative knowledge and its construction / Brigitte Jordan
An evolutionary perspective on authoritative knowledge about birth / Wenda R. Trevathan
Fetal ultrasound imaging and the production of authoritative knowledge in Greece / Eugenia Georges
The production of authoritative knowledge in American prenatal care / Carole H. Browner and Nancy Press
What do women want? Issues of choice, control, and class in American pregnancy and childbirth / Ellen Lazarus
Authoritative knowledge and birth territories in contemporary Japan / Deborah Cordero Fiedler
Ways of knowing about birth in three cultures / Carolyn F. Sargent and Grace Bascope
Authoritative touch in childbirth : a cross-cultural approach / Sheila Kitzinger
Authority in translation : finding, knowing, naming, and training "traditional birth attendants" in Nepal / Stacy Leigh Pigg
Changing childbirth in Eastern Europe : which systems of authoritative knowledge should prevail? / Beverly Chalmers
Resistance to technology-enhanced childbirth in Tuscany : the political economy of Italian birth / Jane Szurek
Intuition as authoritative knowledge in midwifery and home birth / Robbie Davis-Floyd and Elizabeth Davis
Randomized controlled trials as authoritative knowledge : keeping an ally from becoming a threat to North American midwifery practice / Kenneth C. Johnson
Confessions of a dissident / Mardsen Wagner
"Women come here on their own when they need to" : prenatal care, authoritative knowledge, and maternal health in Oaxaca / Paola M. Sesia
Maternal health, war, and religious tradition : authoritative knowledge in Pujehun District, Sierra Leone / Amara Jambai and Carol MacCormack
Heeding warnings from the canary, the whale, and the Inuit : a framework for analyzing competing types of knowledge about childbirth / Betty-Anne Daviss
An ideal of unassisted birth : hunting, healing, and transformation among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi / Megan Biesele.
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ISBN
0520206258 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780520206250 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0520207858 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780520207851 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
96048263
OCLC
35822616
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