1 option
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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jordan, Brigitte.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birth customs.
- Childbirth--Cross-cultural studies.
- Childbirth.
- Obstetrics--Social aspects.
- Obstetrics.
- Childbirth--Folklore.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Parturition.
- Midwifery.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Parturition.
- Midwifery.
- Obstetrics.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, [1993]
- 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 useful examples and lively anecdotes from Jordan¿s own fieldwork, the Fourth Edition of this innovative comparative ethnography brings the reader to a deeper understanding of childbirth as a culturally grounded, biosocially mediated, and interactionally achieved event.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235).
- ISBN:
- 088133717X
- 9780881337174
- OCLC:
- 27692312
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.