Format:
1 Online-Ressource (528 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2019
ISBN:
9780520918733
Note:
Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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FOREWORD
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Introduction
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PART I • THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE IN CHILDBIRTH
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1. Authoritative Knowledge and Its Construction
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2. An Evolutionary Perspective on Authoritative Knowledge about Birth
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PART II • INTRACULTURAL VARIATIONS IN AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT BIRTH:
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3. Fetal Ultrasound Imaging and the Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Greece
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4. The Production of Authoritative Knowledge in American Prenatal Care
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5. What Do Women Want?
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6. Authoritative Knowledge and Birth Territories in Contemporary Japan
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PART III • INTERCULTURAL VARIATIONS IN AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT BIRTH:
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7. Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures
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8. Authoritative Touch in Childbirth
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9. Authority in Translation
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10. Changing Childbirth in Eastern Europe
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PART IV • FIGHTING THE SYSTEM:
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11. Resistance to Technology-Enhanced Childbirth in Tuscany
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12. Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Home Birth
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13. Randomized Controlled Trials as Authoritative Knowledge
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14. Confessions of a Dissident
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PART V • VIABLE INDIGENOUS SYSTEMS OF AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE:
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15. "Women come here on their own when they need to"
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16. Maternal Health, War, and Religious Tradition
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17. Heeding Warnings from the Canary, the Whale, and the Inuit
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18. An Ideal of Unassisted Birth
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX
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In English
Additional Edition:
9780520207851
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print 9780520207851
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520918733