Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities -

Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?
Buch | Hardcover
376 Seiten
2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-834-8 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
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.

Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and Senior Advisor to the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, is a well-known medical/reproductive anthropologist and international speaker and researcher in transformational models in childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and reproduction.

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Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Darker and the Lighter Sides of Biomedical Maternity Care: Moving from Obstetric Violence, Disrespect, and Abuse to the Humanization and De-Colonization of Birth

Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar



Part I: Obstetric Violence and Systematic Racial, Ethnic, Gendered, and Socio-Structural Disparities in Obstetricians’ Practices



Chapter 1. Obstetricians and the Delivery of Obstetric Violence: An Ethnographic Account from the Dominican Republic

Annie Preaux and Arachu Castro



Chapter 2. “Bad Pelvises”: Mexican Obstetricians and the Re-Affirmation of Race in Labor and Delivery

Sarah A. Williams



Chapter 3. “Selfish Mothers,” “Misinformed” Childbearers, and “Control Freaks”: Gendered Tropes in US Obstetricians’ Justifications for Delegitimizing Patient Autonomy in Childbirth

Lauren Diamond-Brown



Chapter 4. Implicit Racial Bias in Obstetrics: How US Obstetricians View and Treat Pregnant Women of Color

Genevieve Ritchie-Ewing



Chapter 5. Censusing the Quechua: Peruvian Obstetras in Light of Historic Sterilizations, Contemporary Accusations, and Biopolitical Statecraft Obligations

Rebecca Irons

This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.



Part II: Decolonizing and Humanizing Obstetric Training and Practice? Obstetricians, Midwives, and their Battles against “The System”



Chapter 6. Decolonizing Medical Education in the UK

Amali U. Lokugamage, Tharanika Ahillan, and S.D.C Pathberiya



Chapter 7. Teaching Humanistic and Holistic Obstetrics: Triumphs and Failures

Beverley Chalmers



Chapter 8. The Inconsistent Path of Russian Obstetricians to the Humanization of Birth in Post-Soviet Maternity Care

Anna Ozhiganova and Anna Temkina



Chapter 9. The Paradigm Shifts of Humanistic and Holistic Obstetricians: The “Good Guys and Girls” of Brazil

Robbie Davis-Floyd and Eugenia Georges



Chapter 10. Interprofessional Education for Medical and Midwifery Students in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Rea Daellenbach, Lorna Davies, Maggie Meeks, Melanie Welfare, and Judy Ormandy



Chapter 11. The Changing Face of Obstetric Practice in the US as the Percent of Women in the Specialty Has Grown

Deborah McNabb



Part III: The Ethnographic Challenges of Gaining Access to Obstetricians for Surveys, Interviews, and Observations



Chapter 12. The Ethnographic Challenges of Gaining Access to Obstetricians for Surveys, Interviews, and Observations

Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar



Conclusions: Concepts, Conceptual Frameworks, and Lessons Learned

Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar



Series Conclusions: Creating the Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians and Suggesting Directions for Future Research

Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-80073-834-X / 180073834X
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-834-8 / 9781800738348
Zustand Neuware
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