Childbirth and authoritative knowledge : cross-cultural perspectives /
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Berkeley :
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Table of Contents:
- 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.