Privileges of Birth : : Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa / / Jennifer J. M. Rogerson.
Focussing ethnographically on private-sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of Birth looks at the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Birth is one of the most medicalised aspects of the lifecycle across all sectors of society, and there is deep...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Elite Birthing Care in South Africa
- Chapter 1 Myths of Birth: Intervention, Having ‘Choice’ and Histories of Birth
- Chapter 2 Being Heard: Planning, ‘Choice’ and Knowing in Pregnancy and Birth
- Chapter 3 Self-Making: Pain, Language and Metaphor in Birth Stories
- Chapter 4 Making Birthing Relations: The Constitution of Attentiveness and Responsiveness
- Conclusion: Care as a Problem, Care’s Limits
- Appendix
- Glossary
- References
- Index