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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      Subject(s)
      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.
      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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