Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge Cross Cultural Perspectives 1st Edition by Robbie E Davis Floyd, Carolyn Fishel Sargent ISBN 0520918738 9780520918733

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ISBN 10: 0520918738

ISBN 13: 9780520918733 

Author: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd; Carolyn Fishel Sargent 

This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors’ focus on authoritative knowledge—the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which decisions are made and actions taken—highlights the vast differences between birthing systems that give authority of knowing to women and their communities and those that invest it in experts and machines.

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge offers first-hand ethnographic research conducted by anthropologists in sixteen different societies and cultures and includes the interdisciplinary perspectives of a social psychologist, a sociologist, an epidemiologist, a staff member of the World Health Organization, and a community midwife. Exciting directions for further research as well as pressing needs for policy guidance emerge from these illuminating explorations of authoritative knowledge about birth. This book is certain to follow Jordan’s Birth in Four Cultures as the definitive volume in a rapidly expanding field.

This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors’ focus on authoritative knowledge—the kn

Table of contents:

1: Authoritative Knowledge and Its Construction
2: An Evolutionary Perspective on Authoritative Knowledge about Birth
3: Fetal Ultrasound Imaging and the Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Greece
4: The Production of Authoritative Knowledge in American Prenatal Care
5: What Do Women Want? Issues of Choice Control and Class in American Pregnancy and Childbirth
6: Authoritative Knowledge and Birth Territories in Contemporary Japan
7: Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures
8: Authoritative Touch in Childbirth A Cross-Cultural Approach
9: Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Home Birth
10: Randomized Controlled Trials as Authoritative Knowledge Keeping an Ally from Becoming a Threat to North American Midwifery Practice
11: Confessions of a Dissident
12: Women come here on their own when they need to Prenatal Care Authoritative Knowledge and Maternal Health in Oaxaca
13: Maternal Health War and Religious Tradition Authoritative Knowledge in Pujehun District Sierra Leone
14: Heeding Warnings from the Canary the Whale and the Inuit A Framework for Analyzing Competing Types of Knowledge about Childbirth
15: An Ideal of Unassisted Birth Hunting Healing and Transformation among the Kalahari Juhoansi
16: Authority in Translation Finding Knowing Naming and Training Traditional Birth Attendants in Nepal
17: Changing Childbirth in Eastern Europe Which Systems of Authoritative Knowledge Should Prevail?
18: Resistance to Technology-Enhanced Childbirth in Tuscany The Political Economy of Italian Birth 

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