This book reexamines the "standard" procedures used to "manage" American childbirth, identifying non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals enacting core values of the American technocracy. This new edition brings together new data with Davis-Floyd's insights into the ritualization and models of labor and birth.
This book reexamines the "standard" procedures used to "manage" American childbirth, identifying non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals enacting core values of the American technocracy. This new edition brings together new data with Davis-Floyd's insights into the ritualization and models of labor and birth.
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Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction
Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, and a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is a well-known medical/interpretive/reproductive anthropologist, international speaker, and researcher in transformational models in childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and reproduction.
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Author's Note about the Cover Images Dedication Figure Tables Acknowledgments Preface to the Third Edition Introduction: Birth as a Rite of Passage 1. Ritual and Rite 2. The Stages of Matrescence: The Pregnancy/Childbirth/Postpartum Rite of Passage 3. The Industrial and Technocratic Models of Birth and Health Care 4. The Humanistic Model of Birth and Health Care 5. Birth Messages in the Hospital 6. How the Messages Are Received: The Spectrum of Response 7. Scars into Stars: The Reinterpretation of the Childbirth Experience 8. The Holistic Model of Birth and Health Care 9. Birth Messages at Home: Homebirth as Holistic Ideology in Action 10. Technocracy in Birth and Life: Some Ritual and Political Implications for the Future 11. Holism in Birth and Life: Some Ritual and Political Implications for the Future Conclusion: Birth as an American Rite of Passage References Index
Author's Note about the Cover Images Dedication Figure Tables Acknowledgments Preface to the Third Edition Introduction: Birth as a Rite of Passage 1. Ritual and Rite 2. The Stages of Matrescence: The Pregnancy/Childbirth/Postpartum Rite of Passage 3. The Industrial and Technocratic Models of Birth and Health Care 4. The Humanistic Model of Birth and Health Care 5. Birth Messages in the Hospital 6. How the Messages Are Received: The Spectrum of Response 7. Scars into Stars: The Reinterpretation of the Childbirth Experience 8. The Holistic Model of Birth and Health Care 9. Birth Messages at Home: Homebirth as Holistic Ideology in Action 10. Technocracy in Birth and Life: Some Ritual and Political Implications for the Future 11. Holism in Birth and Life: Some Ritual and Political Implications for the Future Conclusion: Birth as an American Rite of Passage References Index
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