Birth As An American Rite Of Passage (Social Science Perspectives On Childbirth And Reproduction) - 9780367428501

This book reexamines the standard procedures used to manage American childbirth, identifying non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals enacting core values of the American technocracy. This new edition brings together new data with Davis-Floyd's insights into the ritualization and models of labor and birth.

• | Author: Robbie (University of Texas Davis-Floyd, Austin United States of America)|Robbie Davis-Floyd|Melissa Cheyney
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 06, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 412 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367428504
• | ISBN-13: 9780367428501