Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge
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anthropology of birth
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childbirth
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ethnography
gender studies
home birth
indigenous systems of knowledge
interdisciplinary
maternal health
midwifery
policy guidance
political economy
pregnancy
prenatal care
reproduction
social construct
social psychologist
sociology
technology enhanced childbirth
traditional birth attendants
ultrasound imaging
world health organization
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- ISBN 9780520207851
- Weight: 726g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Robbie Davis-Floyd, Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, is author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage (California, 1992) and co-editor of Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots (1997). Carolyn F. Sargent, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies at Southern Methodist University, is author of Maternity, Medicine, and Power: Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin (California, 1989) and coeditor of Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method (1996).
