Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, Medicine, and Birth Activism

by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd

There is no other living scholar with Davis-Floyd's solid roots, activism, and scholarly achievements on the combined subjects of childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and medicine. Ways of Knowing about Birth brings together an astounding array of her most popular and essential works, all updated for this volume, spanning over three decades of research and writing from the perspectives of cultural, medical, and symbolic anthropology. The 16 essays capture Robbie Davis-Floyd's unique voice, which brims with wisdom, compassion, and deep understanding. Intentionally cast as stand-alone pieces, the chapters offer the ultimate in classroom flexibility and include discussion questions and recommended films. Titles of related interest also by Waveland Davis-Floyd-Cheyney, Birth in Eight Cultures (ISBN 9781478637905); Gabriel, Touching Bellies, Touching Midwives of Southern Mexico Tell Their Stories (ISBN 9781478627104); Holloway, Monique and the Mango Two Years with a Midwife in Mali (ISBN 9781577664352), and Jordan, Birth in Four A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden and the United States, Fourth Edition (9780881337174).

438 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2017