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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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