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• Textauthoritative knowledgeintuition...1 more

  Intuition as authoritative knowledge in midwifery and homebirth

  Calls attention to these midwives' utilization of and reliance on intuition as a guide to action and decision making during homebirths.
• Textauthoritative knowledgechildbirth...1 more

  Ways of knowing about birth in three cultures
  

  Examines the concept of authoritative knowledge elaborated by Brigitte Jordan, using examples of birthing systems in Mexico, Texas and Jamaica.
• Textauthoritative knowledgeperbidanan

  Authoritative knowledge and birth territories in contemporary Japan

  In contemporary Japan midwives remain integral participants in maternity care and attend normal deliveries in the hospital setting. But because of the culturally depicted potential for pathology at the time of birth, the obstetrician, is viewed as having greater authoritative knowledge than the midwife and the woman giving birth
• Textauthoritative knowledgemedical authority...1 more

  Fatal ultrasound imaging and the production of authoritative knowledge in Greece

  Examines some of the ways in which pregnant women and obstetricians experience the intensive use of fetal ultrasound in a small city in eastern Greece.
• Textauthoritative knowledgeprenatal care...1 more

  The production of authoritative knowledge in American prenatal care

  Describes some of the ways that the prenatal care practices of a group of U.S. women help to consolidate biomedical hegemony by using Jordan's concept of authoritative knowledge.
• Textauthoritative knowledgematernal health...2 more

  "Women come here on their own when they need to": Prenatal care, authoritative knowledge, and maternal health in Oaxaca

  Physiological and anatomical concepts about reproduction held by traditional midwives in Southern Oaxaca differ considerably from those of biomedicine.