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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.

Tags: authoritative knowledge, intuition, perbidanan

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.

Tags: authoritative knowledge, childbirth, reproduction

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…

Tags: authoritative knowledge, perbidanan

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.

Tags: authoritative knowledge, medical authority, pregnancy

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.

Tags: authoritative knowledge, prenatal care, reproduction

"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.

Tags: authoritative knowledge, maternal health, prenatal care, traditional midwives

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