Through stories about becoming and being a midwife and stories about receiving midwifery care, this book describes how fundamental tenets of midwifery philosophy and practicethe meaning of tradition, natural birth, and home birth, and the place of medical technology in midwiferyare being reworked by the practical and ideological challenges of midwifery's new place within the formal health care system. MacDonald presents contemporary midwifery as a complex cultural system in which "nature" and "tradition" emerge as dynamic rather than esssentialized social categories of meaning and experience.
Through stories about becoming and being a midwife and stories about receiving midwifery care, this book describes how fundamental tenets of midwifery philosophy and practicethe meaning of tradition, natural birth, and home birth, and the place of medical technology in midwiferyare being reworked by the practical and ideological challenges of midwifery's new place within the formal health care system. MacDonald presents contemporary midwifery as a complex cultural system in which "nature" and "tradition" emerge as dynamic rather than esssentialized social categories of meaning and experience.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780826515773 |
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Publisher: | Vanderbilt University Press |
Publication date: | 02/18/2008 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 196 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |