Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural PerspectivesUniversity of California Press, 28. apr. 2023 - 505 sider 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. |
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Fetal Ultrasound Imaging and the Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Greece | 91 |
The Production of Authoritative Knowledge in American Prenatal Care | 113 |
What Do Women Want? Issues of Choice Control and Class in American Pregnancy and Childbirth | 132 |
Authoritative Knowledge and Birth Territories in Contemporary Japan | 159 |
Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures | 183 |
Authoritative Touch in Childbirth A CrossCultural Approach | 209 |
Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Home Birth | 315 |
Randomized Controlled Trials as Authoritative Knowledge Keeping an Ally from Becoming a Threat to North American Midwifery Practice | 350 |
Confessions of a Dissident | 366 |
Women come here on their own when they need to Prenatal Care Authoritative Knowledge and Maternal Health in Oaxaca | 397 |
Maternal Health War and Religious Tradition Authoritative Knowledge in Pujehun District Sierra Leone | 421 |
Heeding Warnings from the Canary the Whale and the Inuit A Framework for Analyzing Competing Types of Knowledge about Childbirth | 441 |
An Ideal of Unassisted Birth Hunting Healing and Transformation among the Kalahari Juhoansi | 474 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 493 |
Authority in Translation Finding Knowing Naming and Training Traditional Birth Attendants in Nepal | 233 |
Changing Childbirth in Eastern Europe Which Systems of Authoritative Knowledge Should Prevail? | 263 |
Resistance to TechnologyEnhanced Childbirth in Tuscany The Political Economy of Italian Birth | 287 |
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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-cultural Perspectives Robbie Davis-Floyd,Carolyn Fishel Sargent Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1997 |
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Side 54 - Jordan explains authoritative knowledge in the following way: 'for any particular domain, several knowledge systems exist, some of which, by consensus, come to carry more weight than others, either because they explain the state of the world better for the purposes at hand (efficacy) or because they are associated with a stronger power base (structural superiority), and usually both
Side 54 - A consequence of the legitimation of one kind of knowing as authoritative is the devaluation, often the dismissal, of all other kinds of knowing.
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