Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics

Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics.This volume contains social science analyses of Swiss, Chilean, Mexican, US, Greek, and Irish obstetrics and obstetricians, particularly around their reasons for the overuse of cesareans; a chapter on "4 Stages of Cognition" and a condition called "Substage," which describes how these concepts apply to obstetricians; and a chapter on why obstetricians fear home birth.This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do.An excerpt from Vania Smith-Oka and Lydia Dixon's chapter:For systemic changes to occur, we must understand doctors’ decision-making rationales and take their fear-based perspectives about risk and responsibility into account, while also paying attention to the concerns raised by scholars and activists.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-06-11
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt638 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
Antal sidor334
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781800738317

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Overview of This Volume and of Significant Concepts UsedRobbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish PremkumarChapter 1. Open and Closed Knowledge Systems, the 4 Stages of Cognition, and the Obstetric Management of BirthRobbie Davis-FloydChapter 2. From “Mastership” to Active Management of Labor: The Culture of Irish Obstetrics and ObstetriciansMargaret Dunlea, Martina Hynan, Jo Murphy-Lawless, Magdalena Ohaja, Malgorzata Stach and Jeannine WebsterChapter 3. Becoming an Obstetrician in Greece: Medical Training, Informal Scripts, and the Routinization of Cesarean BirthEugenia GeorgesChapter 4. Physiologic Birth Entails Economic Damage: Financial Incentives for the Performance of Cesareans in ChileMichelle Sadler and Gonzalo LeivaChapter 5. The Introduction of “Natural Cesareans” in Swiss Hospitals: A Conversation with One of Its PioneersCaroline Chautems, Irene Maffi, and Alexandre FarinChapter 6. Scoring Women, Calculating Risk: The MFMU VBAC CalculatorNicholas RubashkinChapter 7. On Risk and Responsibility: Contextualizing Practice among Mexican ObstetriciansVania Smith-Oka and Lydia Z. DixonChapter 8. Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries: How Class, Ethnic, and Gender Differences Are Reproduced in Medical Training in MexicoVania Smith-Oka and Megan K. MarshallaChapter 9. The Limitations of Understanding Structural Inequality: Obstetricians’ Accounts of Caring for Substance-Using Patients in the USKatharine McCabeChapter 10. Contraceptive Provision by Obstetricians/Gynecologists in the US: Biases, Misperceptions, and Barriers to an Essential Reproductive Health ServiceMelissa Goldin EvansChapter 11. Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility: Home Birth and Why Obstetricians Fear ItAmali U. Lokugamage and Claire FeeleyConclusions: Concepts, Conceptual Frameworks, and Lessons LearnedRobbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish PremkumarIndex