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Childbirth and authoritative knowledge : cross-cultural perspectives /
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 wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.