Childbirth in the global village : implications for midwifery education and practice / Dawn Hillier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillier, Dawn, 1950-

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis.

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Childbirth--Cross-cultural studies.

Childbirth.

Midwives--Training of.

Midwives.

Globalization--Health aspects.

Globalization.

Obstetrics--Social aspects.

Obstetrics.

Parturition.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Midwifery--education.

Medical Subjects:

Parturition.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Midwifery--education.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 226 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

System Details:

text file

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

Four women's stories

Cultural messages

2. The global village

Symbolic exchanges

Reflexive modernity

Cultural types

Cultural theory and myths of childbirth

Conclusion

3. The nature of modernity : society, development and risk

Social consequences of adjustment and restructuring

Public health : public trust

4. Experiences of childbirth in Africa

Characterising African rural and urban society

The reconstruction of childbirth in Africa

Penetrating the village : the extension of Western ideology in the practices of traditional midwives

Modern rituals and childbirth practices : ritual confusion

5. Experiences of childbirth in Malaysia

Persistence and change

The impact of modernity on Malaysian women in childbirth

6. Experiences of childbirth in American

American women's lives

The egalitarian struggle for authenticity

Fast birth : time as the dominant paradigm

Birth territory : where women birth

Concluding comment

7. Experiences of childbirth in England

Hierarchical and egalitarian : opposing approaches to childbirth

Risk approach to childbirth : hierarchist model

Reconstructing relative risks

Why did childbirth have to change? : one woman's experience

Striving for egalitarianism

The beginnings of change

The changing experience of women

Symbolic exchanges : recreating childbirth and midwifery

Strategies of re-creation

Conclusion.

8. Symbolic exchanges in childbirth : reflections from the case studies

Symbolic exchanges in childbirth : the influence of science and medicine

Furthering the numerical paradigm : 'measuring' the risk of childbirth

The struggle for a place in the global village

The context of the global village

Traditional reliance on inherited and orally transmitted knowledge

Modernity : when non-traditional health, education and social supports are available and relied upon more than the traditional

Discussion

9. Cultural implications for midwifery education and practice

Global interconnectedness : local reframing

The cultural implications of modernity for the education and training of midwifery practitioners

Midwifery education and practice : sociocultural determinants

Making midwives : traditional birth attendant training

Knowledge production in development ideology

Making midwives in the modern world : cultural implications for professional programmes

Concluding discussion : in place of development : dialogue not training

10. The midwifery curriculum : a selection from culture?

Curriculum as a selection from culture : from content and hierarchist perspectives

The hierarchist model of education : curriculum as content : education as transmission

Reflecting on distance education

The case for indigenous knowledge

Curriculum as process and education as development : education through social action and interaction

Midwives' stories as vehicles for symbolic exchange : learning from situated knowledge

In summary

11. There and back again : the ripples on the pond

What do the stories tell us?

Concerning cultural types and myths of nature

Reflecting on the research.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780203865774

0203865774

Publisher Number:

99970162289

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.