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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.
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  "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.
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  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.