This book reexamines the standard procedures used to manage American childbirth, identifying non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals enacting core values of the American technocracy. This new edition brings together new data with D...Lasīt vairāk
This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiensa new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. The chapters are empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from...Lasīt vairāk
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....Lasīt vairāk
Providing insights into midwifery, this work describes the development of nurse and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, and examines the history, purposes, complexities, and the political strife that has characterized the evolution of midwi...Lasīt vairāk
This text tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to ethnographic analysis to science fiction....Lasīt vairāk
Intuition explores the nature of intuition and its practical place in the social and behavioural sciences and the arts and discusses the nature of intuition from such perspectives as anthropology, philosophy, physics, psychology and medicine....Lasīt vairāk
