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  • Ritual

    What It Is, How It Works, and Why

    by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Charles D. Laughlin ...
    Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Obstetricians Speak

    On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ashish Premkumar ...
    Series Book 1 - The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
    For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation in this the first of the 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession.These stories range from those of abortion providers to those of maternal-fetal medicine specialists. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Birth as an American Rite of Passage

    by Robbie Davis-Floyd ...
    Series series Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction
    This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the "standard procedures" that are routinely used to "manage" American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-based obstetric ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Traditional Midwives

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Betty-Anne Daviss, Inayat Ali ...
    Series series Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction
    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 ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Exploring Reproduction

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Maya Unnithan, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Anindita Majumdar, Richard Powis ...
    Exploring Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives introduces students to the dynamic field of the anthropology of reproduction, examining how human reproduction is shaped by cultural, historical, and political forces.This textbook engages with key issues such as fertility, infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, childbirth, contraception, reproductive governance, genetics, and justice. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Birth Models That Work

    Edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Lesley Barclay, Jan Tritten, Betty-Anne Daviss ...
    This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal physiological birth; deal ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cyborg Babies

    From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Joseph Dumit ...
    From fetuses scanned ultrasonically to computer hackers in daycare, contemporary children are increasingly rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. As we are faced with reproductive choices connected directly with technologies, we often have trouble gaining perspective on our own cultural co-dependency with these very same technologies. Our notions of fetal health, maternal risk and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Birthing Techno-Sapiens

    Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd ...
    Series series Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction
    This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. While some of its chapters are imaginary, they are all empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from diverse disciplines.The authors go far beyond a techno-optimism vs. techno-pessimism stance, stretching our ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics

    Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ashish Premkumar ...
    Series Book 2 - The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
    Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics.This volume contains social science analyses of Swiss, Chilean, Mexican, US, Greek, and Irish obstetrics and obstetricians, particularly around their reasons for the overuse of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

    Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ashish Premkumar ...
    Series Book 3 - The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
    The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world.Part I of this volume addresses obstetric violence and systemic racial, ethnic, gendered, and socio-structural disparities in obstetricians’ ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier

    Speaking Truth to Power

    Edited by Betty-Anne Daviss, Robbie Davis-Floyd ...
    Series series Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction
    This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional health care systems or creating new ones outside the box.The chapters present models of childbirth at extreme ends of a spectrum—from the conflict zones and disaster areas of Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Intuition: The Inside Story

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, P. Sven Arvidson ...
    Science could never have proceeded without the creativity of intuition--yet intuition is poorly understood and poorly studied. In Intuition: The Inside Story, scholars explore the nature of intuition and its practical place in the social and behavioral sciences and the arts. These contributors present the latest theoretical developments and research and provide every day examples of intuition from ... Read more

    $60.99 USD