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This book addresses the politics of global health and social
justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that
have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional
health care systems or creating new ones outside the box. The
chapters present models of childbirth at extreme ends of a
spectrum-from the conflict zones and disaster areas of Afghanistan,
Israel, Palestine, and Indonesia, to high-risk tertiary care
settings in China, Canada, Australia, and Turkey. Debunking notions
about best care, the volume illustrates how human rights in health
care are on a collision course with global capitalism and offers a
number of specific solutions to this ever-increasing problem. This
volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in
anthropology, sociology, health, and midwifery, as well as for
practitioners, policy makers, and organizations focused on birth or
on social activism in any arena.
This book addresses the politics of global health and social
justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that
have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional
health care systems or creating new ones outside the box. The
chapters present models of childbirth at extreme ends of a
spectrum-from the conflict zones and disaster areas of Afghanistan,
Israel, Palestine, and Indonesia, to high-risk tertiary care
settings in China, Canada, Australia, and Turkey. Debunking notions
about best care, the volume illustrates how human rights in health
care are on a collision course with global capitalism and offers a
number of specific solutions to this ever-increasing problem. This
volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in
anthropology, sociology, health, and midwifery, as well as for
practitioners, policy makers, and organizations focused on birth or
on social activism in any arena.
This contributed volume explores flexible, adaptable, and
sustainable solutions to the shockingly high costs of birth across
the globe. It presents innovative and collaborative maternity care
practices and policies that are intersectional, human rights-based,
transdisciplinary, science-driven, and community-based. Each
chapter describes participatory and midwifery-oriented care that
helps improve maternal and newborn outcomes within minoritized
populations. The featured case studies respond to resource
constraints and inequities of access by transforming relations
between providers and families or by creating more egalitarian
relations among diverse providers such as midwives, obstetricians,
and nurses that minimize inefficient hierarchies within maternity
care. The authors build on a growing awareness that quality and
respectful midwifery care has lower costs and improved outcomes for
child bearers, newborns, and providers. Topics include: Sustainable
collaborations including transfers of care among midwives and
obstetricians in India, The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom,
and Denmark Midwifery-oriented, femifocal, indigenous, and
inclusive models of care that counter obstetric violence and gender
stereotypes in Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Argentina, and India Doula
care and midwifery care for women of color, previously incarcerated
women, indigenous women, and other minoritized groups in the global
north and south Practices and metrics for improving quality of
newborn and maternal care as well as maternal and newborn outcomes
in disruptive times and disaster settings Sustainable Birth in
Disruptive Times is an essential and timely resource for providers,
policy makers, students, and activists with interests in maternity
care, midwifery, medical anthropology, maternal health, newborn
health, obstetrics, childbirth, medicine, and global health in
disruptive times.
This contributed volume explores flexible, adaptable, and
sustainable solutions to the shockingly high costs of birth across
the globe. It presents innovative and collaborative maternity care
practices and policies that are intersectional, human rights-based,
transdisciplinary, science-driven, and community-based. Each
chapter describes participatory and midwifery-oriented care that
helps improve maternal and newborn outcomes within minoritized
populations. The featured case studies respond to resource
constraints and inequities of access by transforming relations
between providers and families or by creating more egalitarian
relations among diverse providers such as midwives, obstetricians,
and nurses that minimize inefficient hierarchies within maternity
care. The authors build on a growing awareness that quality and
respectful midwifery care has lower costs and improved outcomes for
child bearers, newborns, and providers. Topics include: Sustainable
collaborations including transfers of care among midwives and
obstetricians in India, The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom,
and Denmark Midwifery-oriented, femifocal, indigenous, and
inclusive models of care that counter obstetric violence and gender
stereotypes in Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Argentina, and India Doula
care and midwifery care for women of color, previously incarcerated
women, indigenous women, and other minoritized groups in the global
north and south Practices and metrics for improving quality of
newborn and maternal care as well as maternal and newborn outcomes
in disruptive times and disaster settings Sustainable Birth in
Disruptive Times is an essential and timely resource for providers,
policy makers, students, and activists with interests in maternity
care, midwifery, medical anthropology, maternal health, newborn
health, obstetrics, childbirth, medicine, and global health in
disruptive times.
This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of
birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for
mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples
of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy
industrialized societies that apply the latest scientific evidence
to support and facilitate normal physiological birth; deal
appropriately with complications; and, generate excellent birth
outcomes - including psychological satisfaction for the mother. The
book concludes with a description of the ideology that underlies
all these working models - known internationally as the midwifery
model of care.
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