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Books by Robbie Davis-Floyd
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Mainstreaming Midwives
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Birth as an American Rite Of Passage
By: Robbie Davis-Floyd
1992 Revised edition 2004
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Based on interviews with 100 women, this book identifies obstetrical procedures as rituals, and analyzes the American medical system as a microcosm of our society which seeks through these rituals to socialize birthing women into the collective core value system of the technocracy. -MORE INFO-
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From Doctor to Healer
The Transformative Journey
By: Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John
1998
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This book explores the three major paradigms of health care in the United States today--the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models--and investigates the paradigm shift from technomedicine to holistic healing made by increasing numbers of contemporary MDs. Based on in-depth anthropological interviews with over 40 holistic physicians, it constitutes the first intimate and systematic look at the motivations of those physicians who choose to make a such a paradigm shift, at the stages of their transformational journey, and at the types of holistic practice they are pioneering. . -MORE INFO-
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Reconceiving Midwifery
Edited by: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault , Cecilia Benoit and Robbie Davis-Floyd
2004
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Canadian midwives are achieving a midwifery renaissance. The chapters in this collection describe the history of Canadian midwifery, its near-elimination, and the means by which contemporary Canadian midwives are achieving its renaissance.e. –MORE INFO-
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Intuition
The Inside Story
Edited by: Robbie Davis-Floyd and P. Svin Arvidson
1997
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In the summer of 1994 at Princeton University, fifty people from disparate backgrounds and disciplines came together to study consciousness for two intense and adventurous weeks. From the intellectual cauldron of their interactions emerged the idea for this book--a cross-disciplinary look at that most elusive element of human consciousness and capability, intuition. The chapters examine intuition from the perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, physics, engineering, psychology, medicine, and midwifery. -MORE INFO-
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Cyborg Babies
From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots
Edited by: Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit
1998
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A cyborg is a techno-organic system created through the symbiotic interaction of humans with the sophisticated technologies they develop. From fetuses scanned electronically to computer hackers in daycare, contemporary children are increasingly rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. Cyborg Babies tracks the production of children in symbiosis with pervasive technology across a wide range of perspectives, from resistance to ethnographic analysis to science fiction. Chosen by the Village Voice as one of its “25 Favorites of the Year” for 1998, and selected Book of the Month for November 1999 by the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. -MORE INFO-
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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge
Cross Cultural Perspectives
Edited by: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Carolyn F. Sargent
1997
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This comprehensive collection of cross-cultural essays extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan. The authors’ focus on authoritative knowledge--the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which decisions are made and actions taken--highlights the vast differences between birthing systems that give authority of knowing to women and their communities and those that invest it in experts and machines. Awarded “Most Enduring Edited Collection” by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, 2003. -MORE INFO-
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Birth in Four Cultures
A Cross Cultural Investigation of Childbirth
Edited by: By Brigitte Jordan. Revised and expanded by Robbie Davis-Floyd, 1993
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Anthropologist Brigitte Jordan first wrote this now-classic book in 1978. It systematically compares birthways in Mexico, the US, Sweden, and The Netherlands, and was the catalyst for the development of the fields of the anthropology of birth and midwifery. Robbie revised, expanded, and updated it in 1993, adding lots of new information and several of Jordan’s published articles on her concept of authoritative knowledge in childbirth. -MORE INFO-
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