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Product Description
There exists an abundance of books about childbirth. What has been missing is a work that describes American childbirth from an ethnographic standpoint, utilizing the rich, insightful data that can only be derived from observations of childbirth in the real world. This new ethnography, Epiduralized Birth and Nurse-Midwifery: Childbirth in the United States, examines the state of maternity care in the United States through the lens of one midwifery service at a community hospital. The author bases this ethnography on her 2014 dissertation research. (Research included a year of observation and interviews.) It is a significant addition to the study of American childbirth and nurse-midwifery.The book describes recent developments in maternity care, what the author refers to as epiduralized birth, a way of birth that is antithetical to ecological birth. The book also describes care provided by a nurse-midwifery service, care that involves a “normality paradox” among midwives who must negotiate highly technicalized care that often runs contrary to their values.
Epiduralized birth is an assembly-like process where all interventions are integrated, inseparable, and interdependent elements of a single process – a process that has the epidural at its core. Birth has moved beyond the cascade of interventions. The cascade of interventions has been standardized to make up a systematic, interdependent group of elements that are a highly technical process. Industrialized birth is discussed with rich ethnographic data.
This medical ethnography is interdisciplinary. As such, it has much to offer a variety of disciplines including but not limited to anthropology, sociology, health care sciences, women’s health, public policy, and women’s studies.
The author, Maureen May (WHNP, CNM, PhD), is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner with a PhD in Social Science from Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Her degree included a concentration in cultural anthropology and ethnographic methodology. As an ethnographer, the author has for years followed the cultural and professional issues facing the nurse-midwifery profession—professional issue that correspond with the overall need for maternity care reform in the United States. The author has also spoken and written extensively on childbirth and women’s health.
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