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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

Preparing for motherhood: Authoritative knowledge and the undercurrents of shared experience in two childbirth education courses in Cagliari, Italy

Examines the social processes and interactions that enabled women's experiential knowledge to dominate discussions and subsequently share in the authority of biomedical knowledge in some situations.

Tags: prenatal care, reproduction

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