ABSTRACT
This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional health care systems or creating new ones outside the box.
The chapters present models of childbirth at extreme ends of a spectrum—from the conflict zones and disaster areas of Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and Indonesia, to high-risk tertiary care settings in China, Canada, Australia, and Turkey. Debunking notions about best care, the volume illustrates how human rights in health care are on a collision course with global capitalism and offers a number of specific solutions to this ever-increasing problem.
This volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in anthropology, sociology, health, and midwifery, as well as for practitioners, policy makers, and organizations focused on birth or on social activism in any arena.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |52 pages
Introduction
part I|75 pages
Models speaking truth through independence
chapter 3|18 pages
Home-Based Lifesaving Skills
part II|122 pages
Models that tackle threats to normal birth and human rights issues of access to care
chapter 4|14 pages
There’s Something Wrong Here
chapter 6|21 pages
What Made her Think She Could Win in Court?
chapter 7|24 pages
What if another 10% of Deliveries in the United States Occurred at Home or in a Birth Center?
part III|73 pages
Models in troubled areas
chapter 9|13 pages
Implementing the International Childbirth Initiative (ICI) in Disaster Zones
chapter 11|28 pages
Are Top Down or Grassroots’ Solutions Better in Conflict Areas?
chapter 12|11 pages
Three Generations of Rural Community Midwifery in the Philippines
part IV|78 pages
Pragmatic models