Birth as an American Rite of Passage
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0520084314
ISBN 13
9780520084315
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Unknown
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
382
Description
Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth—routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? And why, in spite of the natural childbirth movement, has hospital birth become even more intensely technologized? Robbie Davis-Floyd argues that these obstetrical procedures are rituals that reflect a cultural belief in the superiority of science over nature. Her interviews with 100 mothers and many health care professionals reveal in detail both the trauma and the satisfaction women derive from childbirth. She also calls for greater cultural and medical tolerance of the alternative beliefs of women who choose to birth at home. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2