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Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Second Edition, With a New Preface

By: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd

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Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Second Edition, With a New Preface

By: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd

Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever.

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Univ of California Press

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0520927214

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Ways of Knowing about Birth

Mothers, Midwives, Medicine, and Birth Activism

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd

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Ways of Knowing about Birth

Mothers, Midwives, Medicine, and Birth Activism

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd

There is no other living scholar with Davis-Floyd’s solid roots, activism, and scholarly achievements on the combined subjects of childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and medicine. Ways of Knowing about Birth brings together an astounding array of her most popular and essential works, all updated for this volume, spanning over three decades of research and writing from the perspectives of cultural, medical, and symbolic anthropology. The 16 essays capture Robbie Davis-Floyd’s unique voice, which brims with wisdom, compassion, and deep understanding. Intentionally cast as stand-alone pieces, the chapters offer the ultimate in classroom flexibility and include discussion questions and recommended films.

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461

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Waveland Press

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1478636491

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9781478636496

Ritual

What It Is, How It Works, and Why

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd,Charles D. Laughlin

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Ritual

What It Is, How It Works, and Why

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd,Charles D. Laughlin

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

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322

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Berghahn Books

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1800735294

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9781800735293

From Doctor to Healer

The Transformative Journey

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd,Gloria St. John

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From Doctor to Healer

The Transformative Journey

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd,Gloria St. John

Why would a successful physician who has undergone seven years of rigorous medical training take the trouble to seek out and learn to practice alternative methods of healing such as homeopathy and Chinese medicine? From Doctor to Healer answers this question as it traces the transformational journeys of physicians who move across the philosophical spectrum of American medicine from doctor to healer. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John conducted extensive interviews to discover how and why physicians make the move to alternative medicine, what sparks this shift, and what beliefs they abandon or embrace in the process. After outlining the basic models of American health care-the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic-the authors follow the thoughts and experiences of forty physicians as they expand their horizons in order to offer effective patient care. The book focuses on the radical shift from one end of the spectrum to the other-from the technocratic approach to holism-made by most of the interviewees. Because many American physicians find such a drastic change too threatening, the authors also address the less radical transition to humanism-a movement toward compassionate care arising from within the medical system.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813525209

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9780813525204

Reconceiving Midwifery

By: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault,Cecilia Benoit,Robbie Davis-Floyd

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Reconceiving Midwifery

By: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault,Cecilia Benoit,Robbie Davis-Floyd

The authors - social scientists and midwifery practitioners - reflect on regional differences in the emerging profession, providing a systematic account of its historical, local, and international roots, its evolving regulatory status, and the degree to which it has been integrated into several mainstream provincial health care systems. They also examine the nature of midwifery training, accessibility, and effectiveness across diverse ethnic and socio-economic groups, highlighting the key issues facing the profession before, during, and in the immediate post-integration era in each province.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773571809

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9780773571808

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd

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By: Robbie Davis-Floyd

This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the "standard procedures" that are routinely used to "manage" American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals that enact and transmit the core values of the American technocracy, thereby answering the pressing question of why these interventions continue to be performed despite all evidence to the contrary. This third edition brings together Davis-Floyd's insights into the intense ritualization of labor and birth and the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of birth with new data collected in recent years.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000574288

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9781000574289

Birth in Eight Cultures

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd,Melissa Cheyney

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Birth in Eight Cultures

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd,Melissa Cheyney

This stunning sequel to Brigitte Jordan’s landmark Birth in Four Cultures brings together the work of fifteen reproductive anthropologists to address core cultural values and knowledge systems as revealed in contemporary birth practices in Brazil, Greece, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Tanzania, and the United States. Six ethnographic chapters form the heart of the book, three of which are set up as dyads that compare two countries; each demonstrates the power of anthropology’s cross-cultural comparative method. An additional chapter with ethnographic vignettes gives readers a feel for what fieldwork is really like on the ground. The eminently readable, theoretically rich chapters are enhanced by absorbing stories, photos, quotes, thought questions, and film suggestions that nudge the reader toward eureka flashes of understanding and render the book suitable for undergraduate and graduate audiences alike.

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278

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Waveland Press

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1478638982

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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge

Cross-Cultural Perspectives

By: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd,Carolyn Fishel Sargent

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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge

Cross-Cultural Perspectives

By: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd,Carolyn Fishel Sargent

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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. 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 kn

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Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Second Edition, With a New Preface

By: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd

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Second Edition, With a New Preface

By: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd

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Ways of Knowing about Birth

Mothers, Midwives, Medicine, and Birth Activism

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd

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Birth in Eight Cultures

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd,Melissa Cheyney

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Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Ways of Knowing about Birth

Ways of Knowing about Birth

Ritual

Ritual

From Doctor to Healer

From Doctor to Healer

Reconceiving Midwifery

Reconceiving Midwifery

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Birth in Eight Cultures

Birth in Eight Cultures

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Ways of Knowing about Birth

Ways of Knowing about Birth

Birth in Eight Cultures

Birth in Eight Cultures

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