Cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics : anthropological analyses and critiques of obstetricians' practices /: anthropological analyses and critiques of obstetricians' practices. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ashish Premkumar.
• Editors: Davis-Floyd, Robbie; Premkumar, Ashish
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction: An Overview of This Volume and of Significant Concepts Used; Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar Chapter 1. Open and Closed Knowledge Systems, the 4 Stages of Cognition, and the Obstetric Management of Birth; Robbie Davis-Floyd Chapter 2. From “Mastership” to Active Management of Labor: The Culture of Irish Obstetrics and Obstetricians; Margaret Dunlea, Martina Hynan, Jo Murphy-Lawless, Magdalena Ohaja, Malgorzata Stach and Jeannine Webster Chapter 3. Becoming an Obstetrician in Greece: Medical Training, Informal Scripts, and the Routinization of Cesarean Birth; Eugenia Georges Chapter 4. Physiologic Birth Entails Economic Damage: Financial Incentives for the Performance of Cesareans in Chile; Michelle Sadler and Gonzalo Leiva Chapter 5. The Introduction of “Natural Cesareans” in Swiss Hospitals: A Conversation with One of Its Pioneers; Caroline Chautems, Irene Maffi, and Alexandre Farin Chapter 6. Scoring Women, Calculating Risk: The MFMU VBAC Calculator; Nicholas Rubashkin Chapter 7. On Risk and Responsibility: Contextualizing Practice among Mexican Obstetricians; Vania Smith-Oka and Lydia Z. Dixon Chapter 8. Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries: How Class, Ethnic, and Gender Differences Are Reproduced in Medical Training in Mexico; Vania Smith-Oka and Megan K. Marshalla Chapter 9. The Limitations of Understanding Structural Inequality: Obstetricians’ Accounts of Caring for Substance-Using Patients in the US; Katharine McCabe Chapter 10. Contraceptive Provision by Obstetricians/Gynecologists in the US: Biases, Misperceptions, and Barriers to an Essential Reproductive Health Service; Melissa Goldin Evans Chapter 11. Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility: Home Birth and Why Obstetricians Fear It; Amali U. Lokugamage and Claire Feeley Conclusions: Concepts, Conceptual Frameworks, and Lessons Learned; Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (324 pages)
• Subjects: 618.2; Obstetrics; Obstetricians; Medical anthropology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800738324
• Related ISBNs: 9781800738317; 9781800738331
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