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At Work in the Field of Birth

At Work in the Field of Birth Midwifery Narratives of Nature, Tradition, and Home

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At Work in the Field of Birth is an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the public health care system. In January 1994, after decades of lobbying by midwives and their supporters, the province of Ontario recognized midwifery as a profession for the first time in more than a century. Through stories about becoming and being a midwife and stories about receiving midwifery care, this book describes how fundamental tenets of midwifery philosophy and practice - the meaning of tradition, natural birth, and home birth, and the place of medical technology in midwifery - are being reworked by the practical and ideological challenges of midwifery's new place within the formal health care system. MacDonald presents contemporary midwifery as a complex cultural system in which ""nature"" and ""tradition"" emerge as dynamic rather than essentialized social categories of meaning and experience.

Book information

ISBN: 9780826515766
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 618.200971
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 206
Weight: 449g
Height: 230mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 20mm