Childbirth and authoritative knowledge

University of California Press

1997

xii, 510 p.

9780585055220

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.

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