UID:
almafu_9958057562602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (528 p.)
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780520918733
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0520918738
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9780585055220
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058505522X
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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FOREWORD --
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Introduction --
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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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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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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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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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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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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520207851
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520207858
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520206250
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520206258
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1525/9780520918733
