Product Description

This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the United States, Canada and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. Birth By Design's essays focus on the practical side of 'good' social science and 'feminist friendly' research. This is a ground-breaking work that looks not only at maternity, but also the act of childbirth. The goal of Birth By Design is to provide not just comparative perspectives of care, but to integrate the differences in care within each essay for a truly international understanding of maternity care.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3821154 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Review
"Through their comparative and multi-leveled analyses, the editors and contributors remind readers that while birth is a natural physiological phenomenon, our understandings of birth, the birthing process, and how and from whom mothers should receive maternity care are culturally based and are continually constructed and reconstructed. By re-focusing our attention on birth outcomes as women's experiences and the reproduction of societies and culture, the editors and contributors of "Birth by Design do problematize all contexts of maternity care, and by doing so, challenge birthing mothers, caregivers, and policy makers in our thinking about the birthing process.."
-Canadian Journal of Sociology Online (CJS Online), March - April 2002

From the Back Cover
This collection of essays contains leading research in maternity care from Europe, the United States and Canada to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. Birth By Design focuses on the practical side of 'good' social science research. This is a ground-breaking work that looks not only at maternity, but also the act of childbirth.