Resources about midwifery
Some of these are large files and might take a while to download. They're all there - just be patient!
Broomhall, S. (2002) Women's little secrets: defining the boundaries of reproductive knowledge in sixteenth-century France. Society for the social history of medicine student essay competition winner. Social History of Medicine,15 (1): 1-15.
Browner, C.H., Press, N. (1996) The production of authoritative knowledge in American prenatal care. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 141-56.
Davis-Floyd, R., & Sargent, C. (1996) The social production of authoritative knowledge in pregnancy and childbirth. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10(2): 111-20.
Davis-Floyd, R., & Davis, E. (1996) Intuition as authoritative knowledge in midwifery and homebirth. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 237-69.
Ellison, M.A. (2003) Authoritative knowledge and single women's unintentional pregnancies, abortions, adoption, and single motherhood: social stigma and structural violence. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 17, (3): 322-47.
Fiedler, D.C. (1996) Authoritative knowledge and birth territories in contemporary Japan. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 195-212.
Gaskin, I.M. (1996) Intuition and the emergence of midwifery as authoritative knowledge. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 295-8.
Georges, E. (1996) Fetal ultrasound imaging and the production of authoritative knowledge in Greece. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 157-75.
Hays, B.M. (1996) Authority and authoritative knowledge in American birth. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 291-4.
Jambai, A., & MacCormack, C. (1996) Maternal health, war, and religious tradition: authoritative knowledge in Pujehun District, Sierra Leone. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 270-86.
Ketler, S.K. (2000) Preparing for motherhood: authoritative knowledge and the undercurrents of shared experience in two childbirth education courses in Cagliari, Italy. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 14, (2): 138-58.
Kingfisher, C.P., & Millard, A.V. (1998) "Milk makes me sick but my body needs it": conflict and contradiction in the establishment of authoritative knowledge. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 12, (4): 447-66.
Sargent, C., & Bascope, G. (1996) Ways of knowing about birth in three cultures. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 213-36.
Sesia, P.M. (1996) "Women come here on their own when they need to": prenatal care, authoritative knowledge, and maternal health in Oaxaca. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, (2): 121-40.