Research Catalog

Title

Childbirth and authoritative knowledge : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Carolyn F. Sargent ; with a foreword by Rayna Rapp.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davis-Floyd, Robbie.
• Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-

Description

xii, 510 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Birth customs
• Childbirth > Cross-cultural studies
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Parturition
• Cross-Cultural Comparison

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Rayna Rapp -- Introduction: The Anthropology of Birth / Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn F. Sargent -- 1. Authoritative Knowledge and Its Construction / Brigitte Jordan -- 2. An Evolutionary Perspective on Authoritative Knowledge about Birth / Wenda R. Trevathan -- 3. Fetal Ultrasound Imaging and the Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Greece / Eugenia Georges -- 4. The Production of Authoritative Knowledge in American Prenatal Care / Carole H. Browner and Nancy Press -- 5. What Do Women Want? Issues of Choice, Control, and Class in American Pregnancy and Childbirth / Ellen Lazarus -- 6. Authoritative Knowledge and Birth Territories in Contemporary Japan / Deborah Cordero Fiedler -- 7. Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures / Carolyn F. Sargent and Grace Bascope -- 8. Authoritative Touch in Childbirth: A Cross-Cultural Approach / Sheila Kitzinger --
• 9. Authority in Translation: Finding, Knowing, Naming, and Training "Traditional Birth Attendants" in Nepal / Stacy Leigh Pigg -- 10. Changing Childbirth in Eastern Europe: Which Systems of Authoritative Knowledge Should Prevail? / Beverley Chalmers -- 11. Resistance to Technology-Enhanced Childbirth in Tuscany: The Political Economy of Italian Birth / Jane Szurek -- 12. Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Home Birth / Robbie Davis-Floyd and Elizabeth Davis -- 13. Randomized Controlled Trials as Authoritative Knowledge: Keeping an Ally from Becoming a Threat to North American Midwifery Practice / Kenneth C. Johnson -- 14. Confessions of a Dissident / Marsden Wagner -- 15. "Women come here on their own when they need to": Prenatal Care, Authoritative Knowledge, and Maternal Health in Oaxaca / Paola M. Sesia -- 16. Maternal Health, War, and Religious Tradition: Authoritative Knowledge in Pujehun District, Sierra Leone / Amara Jambai and Carol MacCormack --
• 17. Heeding Warnings from the Canary, the Whale, and the Inuit: A Framework for Analyzing Competing Types of Knowledge about Childbirth / Betty-Anne Daviss -- 18. An Ideal of Unassisted Birth: Hunting, Healing, and Transformation among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi / Megan Biesele.

ISBN

• 0520206258 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520207858 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780520207851 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96048263

OCLC

ocm35822616

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries