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Childbirth in the global village : implications for midwifery education and practice / Dawn Hillier.
LIBRA RG950 .H54 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillier, Dawn, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Childbirth--Cross-cultural studies.
- Childbirth.
- Midwives--Training of.
- Midwives.
- Globalization--Health aspects.
- Globalization.
- Midwives--Education.
- Obstetrics--Social aspects.
- Obstetrics.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- In this new book, Dawn Hillier compares the experiences of mothers and midwives in America and England with those in Africa and Malaysia. Through vivid descriptions of actual births and careful examination of the local, national and international contexts in which they take place, she explores the roles of culture, policy and the academy in the promotion of political ideals about how human beings should come into this world. "Childbirth in the Global Village" will resonate with the experiences of midwives everywhere and makes a strong case for redesigning the midwifery curriculum to reflect the interconnectedness of childbirth, midwifery education and practice around the globe.
- Contents:
- 1 Women's stories, women's lives 1
- Cultural messages 8
- 2 The global village 12
- Symbolic exchanges 14
- Reflexive modernity 20
- Cultural types 21
- Cultural theory and myths of childbirth 24
- 3 The nature of modernity: Society, development and risk 27
- Social consequences of adjustment and restructuring 28
- Public health: public trust 32
- 4 Experiences of childbirth in Africa 36
- Characterising African rural and urban society 40
- The reconstruction of childbirth in Africa 45
- Penetrating the village: the extension of Western ideology in the practices of traditional midwives 53
- Modern rituals and childbirth practices: ritual confusion 54
- 5 Experiences of childbirth in Malaysia 59
- Persistence and change 60
- The impact of modernity on Malaysian women in childbirth 65
- 6 Experiences of childbirth in America 74
- American women's lives 75
- The egalitarian struggle for authenticity 77
- Fast birth: time as the dominant paradigm 80
- Birth territory: where women birth 81
- 7 Experiences of childbirth in England 100
- Hierarchical and egalitarian: opposing approaches to childbirth 104
- Risk approach to childbirth: hierarchist model 104
- Reconstructing relative risks 109
- Why did childbirth have to change?: one woman's experience 110
- Striving for egalitarianism 113
- The beginnings of change 115
- The changing experience of women 115
- Symbolic exchanges: recreating childbirth and midwifery 116
- Strategies of re-creation 118
- 8 Symbolic exchanges in childbirth: Reflections from the case studies 125
- Symbolic exchanges in childbirth: the influence of science and medicine 126
- Furthering the numerical paradigm: 'measuring' the risk of childbirth 127
- The struggle for a place in the global village 133
- The context of the global village 136
- Traditional reliance on inherited and orally transmitted knowledge 137
- Modernity: when non-traditional health, education and social supports are available and relied upon more than the traditional 140
- 9 Cultural implications for midwifery education and practice 148
- Global interconnectedness: local reframing 148
- The cultural implications of modernity for the education and training of midwifery practitioners 149
- Midwifery education and practice: sociocultural determinants 151
- Making midwives: traditional birth attendant training 153
- Knowledge production in development ideology 156
- Making midwives in the modern world: cultural implications for professional programmes 161
- Concluding discussion: in place of development: dialogue not training 162
- 10 The midwifery curriculum: A selection from culture? 164
- Curriculum as a selection from culture: from content and hierarchist perspectives 164
- The hierarchist model of education: curriculum as content: education as transmission 175
- Reflecting on distance education 177
- The case for indigenous knowledge 178
- Curriculum as process and education as development: education through social action and interaction 179
- Midwives' stories as vehicles for symbolic exchange: learning from situated knowledge 182
- 11 There and back again: The ripples on the pond 184
- What do the stories tell us? 186
- Concerning cultural types and myths of nature 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415275512
- 0415275520
- OCLC:
- 51280654
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