SOME THOUGHTS ON BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN NURSE- AND DIRECT-ENTRY MIDWIVES
SOME THOUGHTS ON BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN NURSE- AND DIRECT-ENTRY MIDWIVES by Robbie Davis-Floyd This article appears in Midwifery Today, March issue, 1999. The author and Midwifery Today grant permission for its replication for educational purposes. It is with dismay that I have listened, for the past five years or so, to direct-entry midwives criticizing nurse-midwives as “medwives” and “physician extenders,” and to nurse-midwives talking about professional...
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THE UPS, DOWNS, AND INTERLINKAGES OF NURSE- AND DIRECT-ENTRY MIDWIFERY: Status, Practice, and Education by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd Ph.D. This article appears in Pathways to Becoming a Midwife: Getting an Education, A Midwifery Today book. Eugene, Oregon: Midwifery Today, 1998, pp. 67-118. 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...
Read MoreIntuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Home Birth
Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Home Birth Robbie Davis-Floyd, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin and Elizabeth Davis, Woman to Woman Clinic, Windsor, California This article appeared in The Social Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Childbirth, a special edition of the Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent, eds. 10(2):237-269, 1996. Permission is hereby given by the authors to reproduce this article for educational...
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTIES OF URBAN MIDWIVES IN THE POPULOUS NEIGHBORHOODS OF MEXICO CITY By: Marianne Dietiker Amsler, M.A. Social Anthropology Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia This Study will attempt to analyze and interpret the social and cultural construction of the identities of 20 urban midwives residing in the eight neighborhoods of the Alvaro Obregon Delegation of Mexico City as relates to their work, their position in context of the different levels of...
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DESIGNING MIDWIVES: A COMPARISON OF EDUCATIONAL MODELS[*] by Cecilia Benoit, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Edwin van Teijlingen, Jane Sandall, Janneli Miller This chapter is published in Birth by Design: Pregnancy,Materity Care, and Midwifery in North America and Europe, eds. Raymond DeVries, Cecilia Benoit, Edwin van Teijlingen, and Sirpa Wrede. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 139-165. INTRODUCTION: EDUCATION AND SOCIALIZATION How should aspiring midwives be prepared for their role as caregivers? ...
Read MoreDaughter of Time: The Postmodern Midwife
Daughter of Time: The Postmodern Midwife Robbie Davis-Floyd For past millennia, midwives have served women in childbirth. In premodern times, midwives were usually the only birth attendants. With the Industrial Revolution and the arrival of modernism, male physicians either replaced midwives or superceded them in the modernist medical hierarchy, leaving them with plenty of women to attend but with relatively little autonomy. As the new millennium dawns on a growing worldwide biomedical hegemony...
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