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245 0 0 _aChildbirth in America :
_h[electronic resource]
_banthropological perspectives /
_cKaren L. Michaelson & contributors.
260 _aSouth Hadley, Mass. :
_bBergin & Garvey Publishers,
_c1988.
300 _aix, 304 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aBibliography: p. 273-298.
505 0 _aIntroduction. Childbirth in America : a brief history and contemporary issues / Karen L. Michaelson -- section I. Decisions in pregnancy -- 1. Poor women, poor outcomes : social class and reproductive health / Ellen S. Lazarus -- 2. Adequate prenatal care and reproductive outcome / Marilyn Poland -- 3. Social support for pregnancy and childbearing among disadvantaged Blacks in an American inner city / Margaret S. Boone -- 4. Khmer prenatal health practices and the American clinical experience / Carolyn Sargent, John Marcucci -- 5. The decision to have on not to have amniocentesis for prenatal diagnosis / Barbara Katz Rothman -- 6. The power of "positive" diagnosis : medical and maternal discourses on amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp -- section II. Birth place/birth style -- 7. Differences in cultural expectations of the perceived painfulness of childbirth / Janice M. Morse, Caroline Park -- 8. Medical models and midwifery : the cultural experience of birth / Ronnie Lichtman -- 9. Technology and the context of childbirth : a comparison of two hospital settings / Karen L. Michaelson, Barbara Alvin -- 10. Birth as an American rite of passage / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- section III. Babies in crisis -- 11. The cultural context of decision making for catastrophically ill newborns : the case of baby Jane Doe / Betty Wolder Levin -- 12. The family in newborn intensive care / Jeanne Harley Guillemin -- 13. The artificial womb : social and sensory environments of low birthweight infants / Lucile F. Newman -- section IV. Becoming a parent -- 14. Childbirth in a bicultural community : attitudinal and behavioral variation / Wenda R. Trevathan -- 15. The interactions of fathers and newborns / Linda H. Briesemeister, Beth A. Haines -- 16. Delayed accomplishments : family formation among older first-time parents / Linda M. Whiteford, Michael Sharinus -- 17. Bringing up baby : expectations and reality in the early postpartum / Karen L. Michaelson -- 18. What determines the duration of breastfeeding? / Janice M. Morse, Margaret J. Harrison, Karen M. Williams
500 _aIncludes index.
650 0 _aChildbirth
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBirth customs
_zUnited States.
650 2 _aAnthropology, Cultural
_zUnited States.
650 2 _aDelivery, Obstetric
_zUnited States.
650 2 _aLabor, Obstetric
_zUnited States.
650 6 _aNaissance
_xAspect social
_zÉtats-Unis.
650 6 _aNaissance
_xRites et coutumes
_zÉtats-Unis.
700 1 _aMichaelson, Karen L.
856 4 1 _uhttp://www.archive.org/details/childbirthinamer00michrich
_zFree eBook from the Internet Archive
856 4 2 _uhttp://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL8267753M
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