Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities - Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized? (Hardcover)

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. Part I of this volume addresses obstetric violence and systemic racial, ethnic, gendered, and socio-structural disparities in obstetricians’ practices in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, and the US. Part II addresses decolonizing and humanizing obstetric training and practice in the UK, Russia, Brazil, New Zealand, and the US. Part 3 presents the ethnographic challenges that the chapter authors in Volumes II and III of this series faced in finding, surveying, interviewing, and observing obstetricians in various countries. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome. An excerpt: In our Series Overview in Volume 1, we asked the question, “Can a book create a field?” and answered that question with a resounding “Yes!” … For us, the official creation of the field of the Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians has taken not one, but the 3 volumes that constitute this Book Series.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
Release date:	May 2023
Editors:	Robbie Davis-Floyd • Ashish Premkumar
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	370
ISBN-13:	978-1-80073-834-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-80073-834-X
Barcode:	9781800738348

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