Reproduction, Health, and Medicine
At a moment when reproduction is increasingly politicized, the volume explores the breadth of contemporary research on reproduction from the perspective of medical sociology, illuminating the lived experience of reproduction and offering insights to inform sociology and health policy.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2019.
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Colección: | Advances in medical sociology ;
v. 20. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Reproduction, Health, and Medicine; Contents; About the Editors; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reproduction through the Lens of Medical Sociology; Medical Sociology and Reproduction; Reproduction, Health, and Medicine; Notes; References; Part I. Medical Technology as Peril or Promise; Post-abortion Care in Senegal: A Promising Terrain for Medical Sociology Research on Global Abortion Politics; Introduction; PAC as Boundary Work and Boundary Object; The Precariousness of Care for Health Workers; Technologies with "Double Lives"; Discussion; Notes
- AcknowledgmentsReferences; Appendix A Study Methods; When Less Is More: Shifting Risk Management in American Childbirth; Introduction; Data and Methods; Practice Variation in American Childbirth; Multiple Risk Cultures; The Sociology of Risk and the Politics of Knowledge; What Is Risk Aversion and Risk Tolerance?; How Should Risks Be Monitored?; What Counts as Risky?; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Bhutanese Refugees, Mothering, and Medicalization; Introduction; Medicalization of Women's Bodies and Childbirth; Surveillance and Neoliberal Mothering
- Intersectional Framework and Bhutanese Refugee ContextData and Methods; Findings; Sources of Knowledge: Epidurals as a Key Intervention; Epidurals as Agency and Safety; Epidurals as Neoliberal and "Good" Mothering; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Women's Motivations for "Choosing" Unassisted Childbirth: A Compromise of Ideals and Structural Barriers; Introduction and Background; The Social Context for Childbirth Decision-making; Women's Motivations for Choosing Out-of-Hospital Birth; Birth Justice and Privilege; Researching Unassisted Birth; Findings
- Ideological Commitments to De-medicalized Birth, But Not Necessarily Birthing UnassistedUnacceptable Care in Hospitals; Midwifery Care as Unavailable and Inaccessible; Choosing Unassisted Birth When Homebirth Midwifery Is Available and Accessible; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II. Knowledge and Its Consequences; Reframing and Resisting: How Women Navigate the Medicalization of Pregnancy Weight; Introduction; Medicalization and Body Weight; Changing Maternity Weight Guidelines; Methods; Participant Information; Data Analysis; Findings
- "This Is Like Some Pregnant Version of Me": Reframing Maternity Weight Gain"After a While, I Wouldn't Even Look at the Scale": Resisting the Quantification of Weight; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Complicating the Generational Disconnect: Pregnant Women, Grandmothers-to-be, and Medicalization; The Generational Disconnect; Scholarship on the Medicalization of Childbearing; Research Methods and Analysis; Findings; Contextualizing Intergenerational Relations; Grandmothers-to-be: Central in Pregnant Women's Narratives; Assessing Pregnancy Embodiment