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Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier
Speaking Truth to Power
Av Betty-Anne Daviss, Robbie Davis-Floyd
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional health care systems or creating new ones outside the box. The chapters present models of childbirth at …
Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier
Speaking Truth to Power
Av Betty-Anne Daviss, Robbie Davis-Floyd
Häftad, 2020
647 kr
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This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional health care systems or creating new ones outside the box. The chapters present models of childbirth at …
Birth as an American Rite of Passage
Inbunden, 2022
2585 kr
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This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the "standard procedures" that are routinely used to …
Birth as an American Rite of Passage
Häftad, 2022
652 kr
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This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the "standard procedures" that are routinely used to …
Midwives in Mexico
Situated Politics, Politically Situated
Av Hanna Laako, Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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This book presents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous, traditional and Indigenous - as profoundly political and embedded in differing societal stratifications.By situated politics, the authors refer to various networks, spaces and …
Birthing Techno-Sapiens
Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction
Häftad, 2021
647 kr
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This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. While some of its chapters are imaginary, they are all empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from diverse …
Birthing Techno-Sapiens
Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. While some of its chapters are imaginary, they are all empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from diverse …
Negotiated Breastfeeding
Holistic Postpartum Care and Embodied Parenting
Inbunden, 2021
2585 kr
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Based on an ethnography of postpartum consultations by independent midwives in Switzerland, this book produces unique insights into home-birth parents’ breastfeeding journey from the first hours after birth to weaning. Considered the "natural" continuity of childbirth without intervention, …
Negotiated Breastfeeding
Holistic Postpartum Care and Embodied Parenting
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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Based on an ethnography of postpartum consultations by independent midwives in Switzerland, this book produces unique insights into home-birth parents’ breastfeeding journey from the first hours after birth to weaning. Considered the "natural" continuity of childbirth without intervention, …
Pregnancy and Birth in Russia
The Struggle for "Good Care"
Av Anna Temkina, Anastasia Novkunskaya m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2195 kr
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This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary Russia, framed by changes to the healthcare system and the roles of its participants after socialism. The chapters consider multiple perspectives and interactions between women …
Pregnancy and Birth in Russia
The Struggle for "Good Care"
Av Anna Temkina, Anastasia Novkunskaya m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary Russia, framed by changes to the healthcare system and the roles of its participants after socialism. The chapters consider multiple perspectives and interactions between women …
Midwives in Mexico
Situated Politics, Politically Situated
Av Hanna Laako, Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
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This book presents the contemporary history and dynamics of Mexican midwifery - professional, (post)modern or autonomous, traditional and Indigenous - as profoundly political and embedded in differing societal stratifications.By situated politics, the authors refer to various networks, spaces and …
Doulas in Italy
The Emergence of a 'New' Care Profession
Inbunden, 2022
2075 kr
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This book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals in Italy, considers their training, practices, and representation, and analyses their role in national and international context. Doulas offer emotional, informational and practical support to women and their families during …
Doulas in Italy
The Emergence of a 'New' Care Profession
Häftad, 2024
548 kr
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This book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals in Italy, considers their training, practices, and representation, and analyses their role in national and international context. Doulas offer emotional, informational and practical support to women and their families during …
Traditional Midwives
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Av Robbie Davis-Floyd, Betty-Anne Daviss m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
532 kr
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Traditional Midwives: Cross-Cultural Perspectives is a pioneering work that delves deeply into the worlds of traditional midwives, shedding light on their practices, roles, and the immense cultural value they hold within their respective communities wherever they are still allowed to practice. This …
Traditional Midwives
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Av Robbie Davis-Floyd, Betty-Anne Daviss m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2075 kr
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Traditional Midwives: Cross-Cultural Perspectives is a pioneering work that delves deeply into the worlds of traditional midwives, shedding light on their practices, roles, and the immense cultural value they hold within their respective communities wherever they are still allowed to practice. This …
Eggonomics
The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them
Häftad, 2024
217 kr
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What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion-dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address. Tracing the emotional and physical journeys egg donors embark upon as suppliers of valuable …
Eggonomics
The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them
Inbunden, 2024
2075 kr
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What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion-dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address. Tracing the emotional and physical journeys egg donors embark upon as suppliers of valuable …
Baloch Midwives
Contesting Global Perceptions of Midwifery in Balochistan, Pakistan
Inbunden, 2024
2585 kr
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This book is the first major ethnography of Baloch midwives in Pakistan. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Balochistan province, it shows how dhīnabogs/dheenabogs (Baloch midwives ranging in age from about 30 to 80) and their dhīnabogirī (midwifery) aid women and their kin through labor …
Baloch Midwives
Contesting Global Perceptions of Midwifery in Balochistan, Pakistan
Häftad, 2025
726 kr
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This book is the first major ethnography of Baloch midwives in Pakistan. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Balochistan province, it shows how dhīnabogs/dheenabogs (Baloch midwives ranging in age from about 30 to 80) and their dhīnabogirī (midwifery) aid women and their kin through labor …
Pleasure in Birth
Wellbeing, Praxis, and Reproductive Justice
Häftad, 2026
532 kr
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Pleasure in Birth: Wellbeing, Praxis, and Reproductive Justice explores how birthing people experience pleasure in childbirth, challenging dominant narratives that equate birth solely with pain and suffering.Drawing on The Birth Pleasure Study—the first rigorous mixed-methods research of its …
Pleasure in Birth
Wellbeing, Praxis, and Reproductive Justice
Inbunden, 2026
2075 kr
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Pleasure in Birth: Wellbeing, Praxis, and Reproductive Justice explores how birthing people experience pleasure in childbirth, challenging dominant narratives that equate birth solely with pain and suffering.Drawing on The Birth Pleasure Study—the first rigorous mixed-methods research of its …
Use of Ritual for Perinatal Loss in Spain
From Silence to Ceremony
Inbunden, 2026
2474 kr
Kommande
This book is an ethnographic study of perinatal loss ritual in Spain, spanning nine decades from 1936 to 2022. It investigates whether and how people in Spain have used ritual to confront the loss of a pregnancy or the death of a newborn, and what it costs them when they cannot.Drawing on …
