Birth As an American Rite of Passage 3rd Edition by Robbie Davis-Floyd 9781000574289 1000574288

Birth As an American Rite of Passage 3rd Edition Robbie Davis-Floyd – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780367428501, 0367428504, 9781000574289, 1000574288

Product details: 

• ISBN 10: 1000574288
• ISBN 13: 9781000574289
• Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd 

This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the “standard procedures” that are routinely used to “manage” American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals that enact and transmit the core values of the American technocracy, thereby answering the pressing question of why these interventions continue to be performed despite all evidence to the contrary. This third edition brings together Davis-Floyd’s insights into the intense ritualization of labor and birth and the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of birth with new data collected in recent years.

Table contents:

1 Ritual and Rite

2 The Stages of Matrescence: The Pregnancy/Childbirth/Postpartum Rite of Passage

3 The Industrial and Technocratic Models of Birth and Health Care

4 The Humanistic Model of Birth and Health Care

5 Birth Messages in the Hospital

6 How The Messages Are Received: The Spectrum of Response

7 Scars into Stars: The Reinterpretation of the Childbirth Experience

8 The Holistic Model of Birth and Health Care

9 Birth Messages at Home: Homebirth as Holistic Ideology in Action

10 Technocracy in Birth and Life: Some Ritual and Political Implications for the Future

11 Holism in Birth and Life: Some Ritual and Political Implications for the Future

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