Traditional Midwives (eBook, PDF)

Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Redaktion: Davis-Floyd, Robbie; Ali, Inayat; Daviss, Betty-Anne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Traditional Midwives: Cross-Cultural Perspectives is a pioneering work that delves deeply into the worlds of traditional midwives, shedding light on their practices, roles, and the immense cultural value they hold within their respective communities wherever they are still allowed to practice. This book not only champions the significance of traditional midwifery but also critiques the (often misguided) global and national initiatives that seek to move all childbirths into biomedical facilities. These facilities, as clearly shown by the chapters in this book, are frequently underequipped and under-staffed, often providing substandard care that can often be obstetrically violent and abusive. The push to move all births into such facilities disregards the quality of care that traditional midwives provide and undermines the trust and rapport they have built within their respective communities. This global push is particularly detrimental to rural women because biomedical facilities are often located far away from such communities. This geographical distance makes access to maternity care difficult, if not impossible, especially for rural women. Furthermore, almost none of the biomedical practitioners are willing to live and practice in such remote areas, thereby leaving thousands of (especially rural) women without any maternity care provision.

Other critical points that this book addresses are the failures of the governmental efforts to train traditional midwives in higher-level skills. As the chapters in this book also clearly demonstrate, the essence of traditional midwifery lies in experiential learning, where skills are passed down through observation, practice, and mentoring.

By bringing to light the multiple challenges that are currently being faced by traditional midwives and the shortcomings of biomedical facilities, this book serves as a crucial reminder of the need for culturally safe and sensitive community- based maternity care that traditional midwives are fully able to provide. It is an essential read for policymakers, healthcare professionals, students, and for anyone who is interested in traditional midwives and their practices.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040398845
• Artikelnr.: 75569177

Autorenporträt

Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Rice University is a well- known cultural/medical/reproductive anthropologist, and an international speaker and researcher in transformational models of childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and reproduction. Betty- Anne Daviss MA, BMJ, RM is a Canadian registered midwife who, for almost 50 years, has combined her midwifery practice with her research in the social sciences and in clinical epidemiology. Inayat Ali PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a Pakistani medical anthropologist, and a public health expert.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Traditional Midwives Robbie
Davis-Floyd, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Inayat Ali 1. Authoritative Knowledge:
A Trialogue on Ways of Doing, Teaching, and Learning About Birth Melissa
Cheyney, Robbie Davis-Floyd, and Brigitte Jordan (posthumously) Part 1.
Traditional Midwives In Mexico: In Homage To Brigitte Jordan, Founding
Mother Of The Anthropologies Of Midwifery And Birth 2. Regulating
Traditional Mexican Midwifery: Practices of Control, Strategies of
Resistance Mounia El Kotni 3. Integrating Traditional Midwives into the
State Healthcare System: A Critical Case Study from Chiapas, Mexico
Margaret Buckner, Mariana Montaño, and Iris Vanegas 4. Community Power as
the Source for Valuing and Validating Traditional Midwifery in Mexico
Nancy Paola Chávez Arias 5. A Tale of Three Midwives: Inconsistent Policies
and the Marginalization of Midwifery in Mexico Lydia Dixon, Mounia El
Kotni, and Veronica Miranda 6. Two Traditional Midwives in Mexico:
Re-Turning to the Essence of Traditional Midwifery Sabrina Speich Part 2.
Traditional Midwives In Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Aotearoa New
Zealand, Pakistan, Laos, Peru, Norway, Guatemala, And India 7. Traditional
Midwives in Nigeria, the Importance of Their Work, How They Are Perceived
by Biomedical Maternity Care Professionals and Mothers, and How Traditional
Midwives Perceive Biomedical Maternity Care Practitioners Andrew Donatus
Abue 8. The Roles of Traditional Midwives during Healthcare Crises in
Kenya: Experiences from the Giriama Community in Coastal Kenya Stephen
Okumu Ombere 9. Traditional Birth Escorts? Reexamining the Work and Needs
of Traditional Midwives in Rural Tanzania Megan Cogburn 10. Indigenous
Midwives and the Biomedical System among the Karamojong of Uganda:
Introducing the Partnership Paradigm Sally Graham and Robbie Davis-Floyd
11. Cradling the Renaissance of Ng¿i Tahu Customary Maternity Knowledge
through Ancient Lullabies Kelly Tikao 12. Traditional Midwives and Home
Births in Rural Sindh Province, Pakistan: Exploring Maternal Healthcare
Practices and Preferences Salma Sadique, Inayat Ali, and Shahbaz Ali 13.
Baloch Midwives in Pakistan Challenge the Haunting Expectations of Hospital
Births Fouzieyha Towghi 14.When the Traditional Midwife Is a Man:
Reimagining Traditional Midwifery in Laos and Globally Pascale Hancart
Petitet 15. The Afterlife of Andean Parteras: The Provision of "Shadow
Reproductive Care" and the Ironies of Expertise Rebecca Irons 16. Standing
with Ancestral Authority in Guatemala: Comadronas' Tireless Historical
Services Win Partial Redemption Luisa Araneda, Ingrid González, Betty-Anne
Daviss, translation by Fernando Rodríguez 17. Sámi Midwifery in Times of
Transition Ánne-Hedvig Salmi Nordsletta and Anna-Lill Drugge 18. Traces of
the Traditional: The Emergence of Professional Midwifery Practices in
Contemporary India Sreya Majumdar Conclusions Robbie Davis-Floyd,
Betty-Anne Daviss, and Inayat Ali