ISBN:
9781845455866
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (280 p)
Serie:
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality v.17
Paralleltitel:
Print version Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time
DDC:
618.4
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth: how women, midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control, but also act
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; PART I. Historical and Cultural Context; Chapter 1. From Tradition to Modernity; Chapter 2. Cosmologies, Concepts and Theories; PART II. Time and Childbirth Practices; Chapter 3. Counting Time in Pregnancy and Labour; Chapter 4. The Progress of Labour; Chapter 5. Time and Midwifery Practice; Chapter 6. 'Waiting on Birth': Management of Time and Place in a Birth Centre; Chapter 7. Management of Time in Aboriginal and Northern Midwifery Settings
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
PART III. Time and Childbirth ExperiencesChapter 8. Narrative Time: Stories, Childbirth and Midwifery; Chapter 9. How Long Have I Got? Time in Labour; Chapter 10. 'Feeding All the Time': Women's Temporal Dilemmas around Breastfeeding in Hospital; Chapter 11. Living with 'Uncertainty': Women's Experience of Breastfeeding in the Current Japanese Social Context; Conclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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