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Author:   Robbie Davis-Floyd ,  Ashish Premkumar
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800738287

ISBN 10:   1800738285
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   11 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Series Overview: The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar Introduction: Obstetricians Speak Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar Chapter 1. On Becoming an Abortion Provider in the US: An Autoethnographic Account Chapter 2. Abortion, Professional Identity, and Generational Meaning Making among US Ob/Gyns Rebecca Henderson, Chu J. Hsiao, and Jody Steinauer Chapter 3. My Transformation from an Obstetrician to a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Subspecialist: Autoethnographic Thoughts on Situated Knowledges and Habitus Ashish Premkumar Chapter 4. Cold Steel and Sunshine: Ethnographic and Autoethnographic Perspectives on Two Obstetric Careers in the US from Across the Chasm Kathleen Hanlon-Lundberg Chapter 5. An Awakening Jesanna Cooper Chapter 6. Repercussions of a Paradigm Shift in the Professional and Personal Life of a Brazilian Obstetrician Rosana Fontes Chapter 7. The Bullying and Persecution of a Humanistic/Holistic Obstetrician in Brazil: The Benefits and Costs of My Paradigm Shift Ricardo Jones Chapter 8. Hungarian Birth Models Seen Through the Prism of Prison: The Journey of Agnes Gereb Agnes Gereb and Katalin Fabian Chapter 9. Adopting the Midwifery Model of Care in India Evita Fernandez Chapter 10. Birth with No Regret in Turkey: The Natural Childbirth of the 21st Century Hakan Coker Chapter 11. Attempting to Maintain a Positive Awareness about Vaginal Breech Birth in Australia Andrew Bisits Chapter 12. Mixing Modalities in My Technocratic/Humanistic Obstetric Practice in the US: Ideology and Rationales Marco Gianotti Chapter 13. How an Obstetrician Promoted Respectful Care in Canada and in the World Andre Lalonde Conclusions: What Have We Learned from Obstetricians? Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar Index

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Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and Senior Advisor to the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, is a well-known medical/reproductive anthropologist and international speaker and researcher in transformational models in childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and reproduction.

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