Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum by Pamela Kendall Stone
Childbirth Across Cultures: Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Postpartum (Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science) by Pamela Kendall Stone
English | Oct 16, 2009 | ISBN: 9048125987 | 319 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | Oct 16, 2009 | ISBN: 9048125987 | 319 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book will explore the childbirth process through globally diverse perspectives in order to offer a broader context with which to think about birth. We will address multiple rituals and management models surrounding the labor and birth process from communities across the globe.
Labor and birth are biocultural events that are managed in countless ways. We are particularly interested in the notion of power. Who controls the pregnancy and the birth? Is it the hospital, the doctor, or the in-laws, and in which cultures does the mother have the control?