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Birth in four cultures : a crosscultural investigation of childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States / Brigitte Jordan ; revised and expanded by Robbie Davis-Floyd

Author
Jordan, Brigitte
Published
Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, [date of publication not identified][1993]
Copyright Date
©1993
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Description
xxi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Davis-Floyd, Robbie

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Contents
A biosocial framework for the crosscultural comparison of childbirth practices -- Buscando la forma -- The crosscultural comparison of birthing systems -- Fieldwork in four cultures -- Birthing systems and change -- The achievement of authoritative knowledge in an American hospital birth -- Modes of teaching and learning -- Cosmopolitical obstetrics.
Summary
While the process of childbirth is, in some sense, everywhere the same, it is also everywhere different in that each culture has produced a birthing system that is strikingly dissimilar from the others. Based on her fieldwork in the United States, Sweden, Holland, and Yucatan, Jordan develops a framework for the discussion and investigation of different birthing systems. Illustrated with examples and anecdotes from Jordan's own fieldwork, this comparative ethnography brings the reader to a deeper understanding of childbirth as a culturally grounded, biosocially mediated, and interactionally achieved event.
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ISBN
088133717X
9780881337174
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235).
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2012
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Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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