BIRTHING MODELS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRONTIER
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 spectrumfrom 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.
Betty-Anne Daviss has served as a midwife for 45 years and is internationally renowned as a breech expert and a researcher on home birth and ethnography in childbirth. She is Adjunct Professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Gender and Womens Studies, Carleton University, Canada, and has privileges at lHpital Montfort and the Ottawa Hospital.
Robbie Davis-Floyd is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas. She is a well-known international speaker and researcher on transformational models in childbirth, midwifery, and obstetrics.
Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction
Series Editor: Robbie Davis-Floyd, Rice University, Houston, Texas
This series focuses on issues relating to childbirth and reproduction from social science perspectives. It includes single-authored, coauthored, or edited books concerned both with peoples reproductive experiences and with birth practitioners such as midwives (both professional and traditional), obstetricians, nurses, doulas, and others. It seeks to provide new viewpoints on functional and sustainable birth models and the challenges to their creation and maintenance, as well as on obstetric violence, disrespect, and abuse and their root causes. Single-case or comparative ethnographies on birth and other reproductive issues are featured, from high-tech conceptions to normal pregnancy and birth, including reproductive politics and human-rights issues in reproduction worldwide.
Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier
Speaking Truth to Power
Edited by Betty-Anne Daviss and Robbie Davis-Floyd
Midwives in Mexico
Situated Politics and Politically Situated
Hanna Laako and Georgina Snchez-Ramrez
Birthing Techno-Sapiens
Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction
Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Social-SciencePerspectives-on-Childbirth-and-Reproduction/book-series/SSPCR
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Names: Daviss, Betty-Anne, editor. | Davis-Floyd, Robbie, editor.
Title: Birthing models on the human rights frontier : speaking truth to
power / edited by Betty-Anne Daviss and Robbie Davis-Floyd.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020038146 (print) | LCCN 2020038147 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367357917 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367357924 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003088783 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Birth customs. | ChildbirthCross-cultural studies. |
ChildbirthSocial aspects. | Prenatal careSocial aspects. | Newborn
infantsCareSocial aspects. | Right to health. | Social justice.
Classification: LCC RG652 .B53 2021 (print) | LCC RG652 (ebook) |
DDC 618.4dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038146
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038147
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ISBN: 978-0-367-35792-4 (pbk)
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CONTENTS
Betty-Anne Daviss
PART I
Models speaking truth through independence: incorporating local practitioners to keep community birth safe
Robin Lim and Samantha Leggett with Erin Ryan, Wil Hemmerle, Carly Facius, Kelley Gary, Isabel Odean, Jenny Facius, and Kenneth C. Johnson
Brenda Epoo, Kim Moorehouse, Maggie Tayara with Jennifer Stonier and Betty-Anne Daviss
Sandra Tebben Buffington, Lynn Sibley, Deborah Armbruster, Diana Beck, Jody Lori, Michelle Dynes, and Lelisse Tadesse
PART II
Models that tackle threats to normal birth and human rights issues of access to care
Jennie Joseph
Betty-Anne Daviss and Andrew Bisits
Betty-Anne Daviss
David A. Anderson, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Kenneth C. Johnson
Ngai Fen Cheung and Anshi Pan
PART III
Models in troubled areas: conflict, post-conflict, or disaster
Ibu Robin Lim with Robbie Davis-Floyd
Mindy Levy, Sera Bonds, Gomer Ben Moshe, and Aisha Saifi
Betty-Anne Daviss
Edna Beguia
PART IV
Pragmatic models: challenging birth management norms and nurturing professional cooperation
James A. Ruiter and Carol Cameron
Hakan oker, Nee Karabekir, and Serpil Varlk
Caetano Pereira and Staffan Bergstrm
Janneli F. Miller
Betty-Anne Daviss
Guide
David Anderson, PhD, is the Paul G. Blazer Professor of Economics at Centre College, Kentucky. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and his PhD from Duke University. Dr. Andersons research focuses on the economics of childbirth, law, the environment, and public policy. His 15 books include Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management, The Cost of Crime, Economics by Example, Explorations in Economics, and Favorite Ways to Learn Economics
