WAYS OF KNOWING: OPEN AND CLOSED SYSTEMS
WAYS OF KNOWING: OPEN AND CLOSED SYSTEMS Robbie Davis-Floyd This article was published in Midwifery Today 69 (Spring): 9-13, 2004. Copyright is held both by Midwifery Today and by Robbie Davis-Floyd. Both give permission for the replication of this article for educational purposes. This special issue of Midwifery Today focuses on midwifery knowledge. The following articles in it will address the specifics of this body of knowledge. But first, it is important to take a...
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Home Birth Emergencies in theU.S.andMexico: The Trouble with Transport Robbie Davis-Floyd Ph.D. This article appears in a special issue of Social Science and Medicine, called Reproduction Gone Awry, edited by Marcia Inhorn and Gwynne Jenkins, Vol. 56, No. 9, 2003, pp. 1913-1931. Abstract: Proponents of the global Safe Motherhood Initiative stress that primary keys to safe home birth include transport to the hospital in cases of need and effective care on arrival. In this...
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Home Birth Emergencies in the United States: The Trouble with Transport Robbie E. Davis-Floyd This article appears as Chapter 22 in Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination, eds. Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer.AltamiraPress, pp. 329-350, 2004. As proponents of the global Safe Motherhood Initiative have long stressed, in both the developing world where home birth is often a necessity, and the developed world where it is a choice, primary keys to...
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Midwifery Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gwynne L. Jenkins This article appears in the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Sage Publications, 2005. Attendance at birth has been suggested to be essential in facilitating mother-child survival as the physiology of birth changed during human evolutionary history. “Midwife,” an Anglo-Saxon term meaning “with woman,” aptly describes the role that women have long assumed as birth attendants. The anthropology of midwifery is the...
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TYPES OF MIDWIFERY TRAINING: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL OVERVIEW by Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD This article appears in Pathways to Becoming a Midwife: Getting an Education, eds. Joel Southern, Jennifer Rosenberg, and Jan Tritten. Eugene, Oregon: Midwifery Today, 1998, pp. 119-193. Copyright is held both by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Midwifery Today, 1998. Either copyright holder may give full permission for this article to be reprinted or reproduced. Robbie E. Davis-Floyd hereby gives...
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WAYS OF KNOWING: OPEN AND CLOSED SYSTEMS Robbie Davis-Floyd This article appears in Midwifery Today 69 (Spring): 9-13. Copyright is held both by Midwifery Today and by Robbie Davis-Floyd. Both give permission for the replication of t this article for educational purposes. This special issue of Midwifery Today focuses on midwifery knowledge. The following articles in it will address the specifics of this body of knowledge. But first, it is important to take a broader...
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