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Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum

Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum

Stone, Pamela Kendall
Selin, Helaine

Paperback

Series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, Book 5

Medical ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9400730586
ISBN13: 9789400730588
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 14 2012
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book will explore the childbirth process through globally diverse perspectives in order to offer a broader context with which to think about birth. We will address multiple rituals and management models surrounding the labor and birth process from communities across the globe.

Labor and birth are biocultural events that are managed in countless ways. We are particularly interested in the notion of power. Who controls the pregnancy and the birth? Is it the hospital, the doctor, or the in-laws, and in which cultures does the mother have the control? These decisions, regarding place of birth, position, who receives the baby and even how the mother may or may not behave during the actual delivery, are all part of the different ways that birth is conducted.

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