Obstetricians Speak
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Obstetricians Speak: On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation(1 The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession)

Obstetricians Speak: On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation(1 The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession)


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For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation in this the first of the 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession. These stories range from those of abortion providers to those of maternal-fetal medicine specialists. Several chapters tell the stories of obstetricians who have made paradigm shifts from technocratic to humanistic practices, the benefits and joys of these paradigm shifts, and the ostracism, bullying, and outright persecution these humanistic obstetricians have suffered. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual obstetricians. 
An excerpt from Kathleen Hanlon-Lundberg’s chapter: Largely maligned in reproductive anthropological literature as callous—if not brutal—self-serving effectors of the over-medicalization of childbirth, most obstetricians whom I know and have worked with are devoted to providing respectful, individualized care to their patients.

Table of Contents:
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 Ágnes Geréb Ágnes Geréb and Katalin Fábián 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 Çoker 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 André Lalonde Conclusions: What Have We Learned from Obstetricians? Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar Index

About the Author :
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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  • ISBN-13: 9781800738300
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 345
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation
  • ISBN-10: 1800738307
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 1 The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
  • Width: 152 mm


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