Birthing models on the human rights frontier : speaking truth to power / edited by Betty-Anne Daviss and Robbie Davis-Floyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daviss, Betty-Anne, editor.

Davis-Floyd, Robbie, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Dr. D. Sergeant Pepper Memorial Fund.

Series:

Social science perspectives on childbirth and reproduction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth customs.

Childbirth--Cross-cultural studies.

Childbirth.

Newborn infants--Care.

Social aspects.

Prenatal care--Social aspects.

Prenatal care.

Childbirth--Social aspects.

Newborn infants--Care--Social aspects.

Newborn infants.

Right to health.

Social justice.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 460 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Betty-Anne Daviss has served as a midwife for 45 years and is internationally renowned as a breech expert and researcher on home birth and ethnography in childbirth. She is Adjunct Professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Gender and Women's Studies, Carleton University, Canada, and has privileges at l'Hôpital Montfort and the Ottawa Hospital. Robbie Davis-Floyd is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas. She is a well-known international speaker and researcher on transformational models in childbirth, midwifery, and obstetrics.

Contents:

Introduction speaking truth to power for social justice in pregnancy and childbirth / Betty-Anne Daviss

Bumi Sehat Bali : birth on the checkered cloth / Robin Lim and Samantha Leggett, with Erin Ryan, Wil Hemmerle, Carly Facius, Kelley Gary, Isabel Odean, Jenny Facius and Kenneth C. Johnson

To bring back birth is to bring back life : the Nunavik story / Brenda Epoo, Kim Morehouse, Maggie Tayara, with Jennie Stonier and Betty-Anne Daviss

Home-based lifesaving skills : harnessing local leaders to prevent / Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Sandra Tebben Buffington, Lynn Sibley, Deborah Armbruster, Diana Beck, Jody Lori, Michelle Dynes, Lelisse Tadesse

"There's something wrong here" : African American women and their babies are at greatest risk in the USA / Jennie Joseph

Bringing back breech : dismantling hierarchies and re-skilling practitioners / Betty-Anne Daviss and Andrew Bisits

What made her think she could win in court? Models of success in seeking justice across cultures in a neoliberal world / Betty-Anne Daviss

What if another 10% of deliveries occurred at home or in a birth center? The economics and politics of out-of-hospital birth in the United States / David Anderson, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Kenneth C. Johnson

Changing childbirth in China : family support still has its place in maternity care / Ngai Fen Cheung and Anshi Pan

Implementing the International Childbirth Initiative (ICI) in disaster zones : Bumi Sehat's experience from Aceh, Haiti, the Philippines, and Nepal / Ibu Robin Lim with Robbie Davis-Floyd

Israeli and Palestinian midwives : birthing peace / Mindy Levy, Sera Bonds, Gomer Ben Moshe, Aisha Al-Saifi

Scraping maternity care off the back burner in Afghanistan : reminding "multi-sector" funding to include the community / Betty-Anne Daviss

Three generations of rural community midwifery in the Philippines : through war, earthquake, tsunami, and now a war on homebirth / Edna Beguia

Cooperative competition among the professions : pizza and other keys to disarmament in Canada / P. James A. Ruiter and Carol Cameron

Birth with no regret in Turkey / Hakan Çoker, Neşe Karabekir, Serpil Varlık

Where there are no doctors : shifting major surgical operations to nonphysician clinics for better outcomes in Mozambique and Tanzania / Caetano Pereira and Staffan Bergström

Solitary and kin-assisted Rarámuri births : ideals and realities / Janneli F. Miller

Conclusions: Speaking truth to power individually and collectively will redistribute the power / Betty-Anne Daviss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 16, 2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. D. Sergeant Pepper Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Birthing models on the human rights frontier

ISBN:

9781003088783

1003088783

9781000335477

100033547X

9781000335415

1000335410

9781000335538

1000335534

Publisher Number:

99986443939

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Restricted for use by site license.