Note: Frontmatter , CONTENTS , FOREWORD , Introduction , PART I • THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE IN CHILDBIRTH , 1. Authoritative Knowledge and Its Construction , 2. An Evolutionary Perspective on Authoritative Knowledge about Birth , PART II • INTRACULTURAL VARIATIONS IN AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT BIRTH: , 3. Fetal Ultrasound Imaging and the Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Greece , 4. The Production of Authoritative Knowledge in American Prenatal Care , 5. What Do Women Want? , 6. Authoritative Knowledge and Birth Territories in Contemporary Japan , PART III • INTERCULTURAL VARIATIONS IN AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT BIRTH: , 7. Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures , 8. Authoritative Touch in Childbirth , 9. Authority in Translation , 10. Changing Childbirth in Eastern Europe , PART IV • FIGHTING THE SYSTEM: , 11. Resistance to Technology-Enhanced Childbirth in Tuscany , 12. Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Home Birth , 13. Randomized Controlled Trials as Authoritative Knowledge , 14. Confessions of a Dissident , PART V • VIABLE INDIGENOUS SYSTEMS OF AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE: , 15. "Women come here on their own when they need to" , 16. Maternal Health, War, and Religious Tradition , 17. Heeding Warnings from the Canary, the Whale, and the Inuit , 18. An Ideal of Unassisted Birth , NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS , INDEX , In English

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Note: Marsden Wagner