Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power

ISBN-13: 9780367357924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 460 str.

Betty-Anne Daviss; Robbie Davis-Floyd

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Speaking Truth to Power for Social Justice in Pregnancy and Childbirth  PART 1: MODELS SPEAKING TRUTH THROUGH INDEPENDENCE: INCORPORATING LOCAL PRACTITIONERS TO KEEP COMMUNITY BIRTH SAFE  1. Bumi Sehat Bali: Birth on the Checkered Cloth  2. To Bring Back Birth Is To Bring Back Life: The Nunavik Story  3. Home-Based Lifesaving Skills: Harnessing Local Leaders to Prevent Maternal and Perinatal Mortality  PART 2: MODELS THAT TACKLE THREATS TO NORMAL BIRTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES OF ACCESS TO CARE  4. "There’s something wrong here": African American Women and Their Babies Are at Greatest Risk in the USA  5. Bringing Back Breech: Dismantling Hierarchies and Re-Skilling Practitioners  6. What Made her Think She Could Win in Court? Models of Success in Seeking Justice Across Cultures in a Neoliberal World  7. 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  8. Changing Childbirth in China: Family Support Still Has Its Place in Maternity Care  PART 3: MODELS IN TROUBLED AREAS: CONFLICT, POST-CONFLICT, OR DISASTER  9. Implementing the International Childbirth Initiative (ICI) in Disaster Zones: Bumi Sehat’s Experience from Aceh, Haiti, the Philippines, and Nepal  10. Israeli and Palestinian Midwives: Birthing Peace  11. Scraping Maternity Care Off the Back Burner in Afghanistan: Reminding "Multi-Sector" Funding to Include the Community  12. Three Generations of Rural Community Midwifery in the Philippines: Through War, Earthquake, Tsunami, and Now a War on Homebirth  PART 4: PRAGMATIC MODELS: CHALLENGING BIRTH MANAGEMENT NORMS AND NURTURING PROFESSIONAL COOPERATION  13. Cooperative Competition among the Professions: Pizza and Other Keys to Disarmament in Canada  14. Birth with No Regret in Turkey  15. Where There Are No Doctors: Shifting Major Surgical Operations to Non-Physician Clinics for Better Outcomes in Mozambique and Tanzania  16. Solitary and Kin-Assisted Rarámuri Births: Ideals and Realities  Conclusion: Speaking Truth to Power Individually and Collectively Will Redistribute the Power