Introduction speaking truth to power for social justice in pregnancy and childbirth / Betty-Anne Daviss -- Bumi Sehat Bali : birth on the checkered cloth / Robin Lim and Samantha Leggett, with Erin Ryan, Wil Hemmerle, Carly Facius, Kelley Gary, Isabel Odean, Jenny Facius and Kenneth C. Johnson -- To bring back birth is to bring back life : the Nunavik story / Brenda Epoo, Kim Morehouse, Maggie Tayara, with Jennie Stonier and Betty-Anne Daviss -- Home-based lifesaving skills : harnessing local leaders to prevent / Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Sandra Tebben Buffington, Lynn Sibley, Deborah Armbruster, Diana Beck, Jody Lori, Michelle Dynes, Lelisse Tadesse -- "There's something wrong here" : African American women and their babies are at greatest risk in the USA / Jennie Joseph -- Bringing back breech : dismantling hierarchies and re-skilling practitioners / Betty-Anne Daviss and Andrew Bisits -- What made her think she could win in court? Models of success in seeking justice across cultures in a neoliberal world / Betty-Anne Daviss -- What if another 10% of deliveries occurred at home or in a birth center? The economics and politics of out-of-hospital birth in the United States / David Anderson, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Kenneth C. Johnson -- Changing childbirth in China : family support still has its place in maternity care / Ngai Fen Cheung and Anshi Pan -- Implementing the International Childbirth Initiative (ICI) in disaster zones : Bumi Sehat's experience from Aceh, Haiti, the Philippines, and Nepal / Ibu Robin Lim with Robbie Davis-Floyd -- Israeli and Palestinian midwives : birthing peace / Mindy Levy, Sera Bonds, Gomer Ben Moshe, Aisha Al-Saifi -- Scraping maternity care off the back burner in Afghanistan : reminding "multi-sector" funding to include the community / Betty-Anne Daviss -- Three generations of rural community midwifery in the Philippines : through war, earthquake, tsunami, and now a war on homebirth / Edna Beguia -- Cooperative competition among the professions : pizza and other keys to disarmament in Canada / P. James A. Ruiter and Carol Cameron -- Birth with no regret in Turkey / Hakan Cʹoker, Nesʹe Karabekir, Serpil Varl♯łk -- Where there are no doctors : shifting major surgical operations to nonphysician clinics for better outcomes in Mozambique and Tanzania / Caetano Pereira and Staffan Bergstrom -- Solitary and kin-assisted Raramuri births : ideals and realities / Janneli F. Miller -- Conclusions: Speaking truth to power individually and collectively will redistribute the power / Betty-Anne Daviss.
Summary:
"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 conflict zones and disaster areas of Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine, and Indonesia, to models in 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 an ever-increasing problem. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in anthropology, sociology, health and midwifery, as well as for practitioners, policy makers and organisations focused on birth or on social activism in any arena"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Social science perspectives on childbirth and reproduction
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