Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians' Practices
Published on 11. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
334 pages
978-1-80073-833-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 7 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80073-833-1 (9781800738331)
DOI
10.3167/9781800738317
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Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians' Practices
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Robbie Davis-Floyd | Ashish Premkumar
Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians' Practices
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06/2023
1st Edition
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€24.49
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Persons
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.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Overview of This Volume and of Significant Concepts Used
Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar
Chapter 1. Open and Closed Knowledge Systems, the 4 Stages of Cognition, and the Obstetric Management of Birth
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Chapter 2. From "Mastership" to Active Management of Labor: The Culture of Irish Obstetrics and Obstetricians
Margaret Dunlea, Martina Hynan, Jo Murphy-Lawless, Magdalena Ohaja, Malgorzata Stach and Jeannine Webster
Chapter 3. Becoming an Obstetrician in Greece: Medical Training, Informal Scripts, and the Routinization of Cesarean Birth
Eugenia Georges
Chapter 4. Physiologic Birth Entails Economic Damage: Financial Incentives for the Performance of Cesareans in Chile
Michelle Sadler and Gonzalo Leiva
Chapter 5. The Introduction of "Natural Cesareans" in Swiss Hospitals: A Conversation with One of Its Pioneers
Caroline Chautems, Irene Maffi, and Alexandre Farin
Chapter 6. Scoring Women, Calculating Risk: The MFMU VBAC Calculator
Nicholas Rubashkin
Chapter 7. On Risk and Responsibility: Contextualizing Practice among Mexican Obstetricians
Vania Smith-Oka and Lydia Z. Dixon
Chapter 8. Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries: How Class, Ethnic, and Gender Differences Are Reproduced in Medical Training in Mexico
Vania Smith-Oka and Megan K. Marshalla
Chapter 9. The Limitations of Understanding Structural Inequality: Obstetricians' Accounts of Caring for Substance-Using Patients in the US
Katharine McCabe
Chapter 10. Contraceptive Provision by Obstetricians/Gynecologists in the US: Biases, Misperceptions, and Barriers to an Essential Reproductive Health Service
Melissa Goldin Evans
Chapter 11. Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility: Home Birth and Why Obstetricians Fear It
Amali U. Lokugamage and Claire Feeley
Conclusions: Concepts, Conceptual Frameworks, and Lessons Learned
Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Overview of This Volume and of Significant Concepts Used
Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar
Chapter 1. Open and Closed Knowledge Systems, the 4 Stages of Cognition, and the Obstetric Management of Birth
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Chapter 2. From "Mastership" to Active Management of Labor: The Culture of Irish Obstetrics and Obstetricians
Margaret Dunlea, Martina Hynan, Jo Murphy-Lawless, Magdalena Ohaja, Malgorzata Stach and Jeannine Webster
Chapter 3. Becoming an Obstetrician in Greece: Medical Training, Informal Scripts, and the Routinization of Cesarean Birth
Eugenia Georges
Chapter 4. Physiologic Birth Entails Economic Damage: Financial Incentives for the Performance of Cesareans in Chile
Michelle Sadler and Gonzalo Leiva
Chapter 5. The Introduction of "Natural Cesareans" in Swiss Hospitals: A Conversation with One of Its Pioneers
Caroline Chautems, Irene Maffi, and Alexandre Farin
Chapter 6. Scoring Women, Calculating Risk: The MFMU VBAC Calculator
Nicholas Rubashkin
Chapter 7. On Risk and Responsibility: Contextualizing Practice among Mexican Obstetricians
Vania Smith-Oka and Lydia Z. Dixon
Chapter 8. Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries: How Class, Ethnic, and Gender Differences Are Reproduced in Medical Training in Mexico
Vania Smith-Oka and Megan K. Marshalla
Chapter 9. The Limitations of Understanding Structural Inequality: Obstetricians' Accounts of Caring for Substance-Using Patients in the US
Katharine McCabe
Chapter 10. Contraceptive Provision by Obstetricians/Gynecologists in the US: Biases, Misperceptions, and Barriers to an Essential Reproductive Health Service
Melissa Goldin Evans
Chapter 11. Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility: Home Birth and Why Obstetricians Fear It
Amali U. Lokugamage and Claire Feeley
Conclusions: Concepts, Conceptual Frameworks, and Lessons Learned
Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar
Index