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Near Birth
- Contested Values and the Work of Doulas
Engelsk Hardback
Near Birth
- Contested Values and the Work of Doulas
Engelsk Hardback

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This insightful study of contemporary birthing uses the work of doulas to explore the questions raised near birth: What do we value, and how do we navigate those values when they are tangled in conflict?   Pregnancy, birthing, and infant care offer a microcosm of cultural debates. In this ethnography of childbearing in Northern California, Andrea Ford examines how people's birthing decisions and experiences relate to and construct the American ideal of the individual through the values of progress, experience, autonomy, equality, authenticity, immunity, and redemption.   Both an anthropologist and a doula who has observed and participated in dozens of births, Ford explores how parents, practitioners, activists, laws, technologies, media, and medical institutions shape the politics of care. Near Birth shows that questions about the best way to have a baby concern much more than health procedures. In the answers lie often-unacknowledged claims about what kinds of personhood matter and what ways of living are valued and valuable.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780520412903
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520412907
Udg. Dato:
11 mar 2025
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
11 mar 2025
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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