Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time / / ed. by Christine McCourt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Becker, Gisela,; Downe, Soo,; Duff, Margie,; Dykes, Fiona,; Frankenberg, Ronald,; Hashimoto, Naoko,; Kirkham, Mavis,; McCourt, Christine,; Stevens, Trudy,; Walsh, Denis,; Winter, Clare,; Ólafsdóttir, Ólöf Ásta,
• HerausgeberIn: McCourt, Christine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Part I Historical and Cultural Context --; Chapter 1 From Tradition to Modernity: Time and Childbirth in Historical Perspective --; Chapter 2 Cosmologies, Concepts and Theories: Time and Childbirth in Cross-cultural Perspective --; Part II Time and Childbirth Practices --; Chapter 3 Counting Time in Pregnancy and Labour --; Chapter 4 The Progress of Labour: Orderly Chaos? --; Chapter 5 Time and Midwifery Practice --; Chapter 6 ‘Waiting on Birth’: Management of Time and Place in a Birth Centre --; Chapter 7 Management of Time in Aboriginal and Northern Midwifery Settings --; Part III Time and Childbirth Experiences --; Chapter 8 Narrative Time: Stories, Childbirth and Midwifery --; Chapter 9 How Long Have I Got? Time in Labour: Themes from Women’s Birth Stories --; Chapter 10 ‘Feeding All the Time’: Women’s Temporal Dilemmmmas around Breastfeeding in Hospital --; Chapter 11 Living with ‘Uncertainty’: Women’s Experience of Breastfeeding in the Current Japanese Social Context --; Conclusion --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857455420; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857455420?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Christine McCourt.

All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth: how women, midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control, but also actively attempt to change established forms of thinking and practice. The stories are engaging as well as critical and invite the reader to think afresh about time, and about reproduction.