Give light : stories from indigenous midwives.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Smith, Steph, director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous women--Health and hygiene.

Indigenous women.

Midwifery--Cross-cultural studies.

Midwifery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (00:54:55)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2022.

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

"Why are the benefits of traditional midwifery practices absent in most modern care options?" Give Light: Stories from Indigenous Midwives brings the voices of Indigenous midwives to the maternity care dialogue. The film shares the benefits of traditional midwifery that are often left out of modern maternity care options. Give Light takes the viewer across the globe to reveal the role of the traditional midwife in her community. In interviews, nine (9) Indigenous midwives from five continents discuss the benefits and challenges to their profession. In their native settings, these compelling women relate their life stories with confidence, humor, and a timely messages of their faith in the natural capabilities of the women that they serve. These accounts are interwoven with expert testimony of medical anthropologist, historians, and conversations with modern day midwives and doulas. Give Light compares and contrasts experiences of the birth by Indigenous midwives with contemporary methods to explore the current rite of passage in childbirth in modernistic world. Is midwifery and its tradition dying out due to persuasions of modern medical treatments or is midwifery the hope of the future?

Participant:

Director, Steph Smith.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

9781036250966

OCLC:

1584443280

Publisher Number:

302639