Overview
- Bridges the power dynamics of midwives vs. obstetricians, home vs. hospital settings, and providers vs. childbearers that contribute to an ongoing maternity care crisis in which roughly 300,000 women and 2.5 million newborns die each year
- Demonstrates that compassionate, cost-effective, and evidence-based maternity care can be implemented when providers and families drawn from or collaborating with minoritized groups shift practices, clinical protocols, and institutional hierarchies
- Innovates by addressing the central issues of quality, equity, and dignity of maternity care, along with issues of gender and power dynamics that perpetuate current failures of access, provider burnout, and poor outcomes for mothers and newborns in shifting and disruptive times
Part of the book series: Global Maternal and Child Health (GMCH)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Sustainable Maternity Solutions in High-Income Countries
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Sustainable Maternity Solutions in Latin America
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Sustainable Maternity Solutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Keywords
- sustainability and birth models
- maternal and neonatal health
- saving newborn lives
- reproductive justice
- ending preventable maternal mortality
- obstetric violence
- midwifery and obstetric models of care
- evidence-based activism in maternity care
- continuum of care
- quality, equity, and dignnity of maternity care
- sustainable models of breech care
- sustainable maternal health metrics
- sustainable surrogacy practices
- physiologic childbirth
- maternity hospital
- medicalized childbirth
- sustainable newborn care
- home birth
- sustainable abortion
- maternal quality of care
About this book
- Sustainable collaborations including transfers of care among midwives and obstetricians in India, The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, and Denmark
- Midwifery-oriented, femifocal, indigenous, and inclusive models of care that counter obstetric violence and gender stereotypes in Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Argentina, and India
- Doula care and midwifery care for women of color, previously incarcerated women, indigenous women, and other minoritized groups in the global north and south
- Practices and metrics for improving quality of newborn and maternal care as well as maternal and newborn outcomes in disruptive times and disaster settings
Sustainable Birth in Disruptive Times is an essential and timely resource for providers, policy makers, students, and activists with interests in maternity care, midwifery, medical anthropology, maternal health, newborn health, obstetrics, childbirth, medicine, and global health in disruptive times.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is a well-known medical anthropologist, midwifery and doula advocate, and international speaker and researcher in transformational models in maternity care. Robbie is author of over 80 journal articles and 24 encyclopedia entries, and of Birth as an American Rite of Passage (1992, 2003) and Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, Medicine, and Birth Activism (2018); coauthor of The Power of Ritual (2016); and lead editor of 13 collections, including the award-winning volumes Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge (1997) and Cyborg Babies (1998); and the “seminal” Birth Models That Work (2009). Her most recent collection, co-edited with Melissa Cheyney, is Birth in Eight Cultures (2019). Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power, co-edited with Betty-Anne Daviss, is in press. As a Board Member of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization, Robbie served as Lead Editor for the International Childbirth Initiative (ICI): 12 Steps to Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care (a joint IMBCO/FIGO global initiative). She presently serves as Lead Editor for a Routledge series called “Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction,” and as Senior Advisor to the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction.
Betty-Anne Daviss, MA, BMJ, RM (Registered Midwife), has served as a midwife for 45 years practicing in various countries on six continents, and as a researcher in the social sciences and clinical epidemiology for over 25 years. She is an Adjunct Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, in Ontario, Canada, and has taught since the 1980s on reproductive issues and the politics of gender and health, while working towards midwifery legislation in North America and abroad. She co-authored the large prospective home birth study of Certified Professional Midwives in North America published in the BMJ (2005) that continues to be accessed 500-800 times a month; the World Report on Postpartum Hemorrhage, when she worked for the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) (Lalonde et al 2006), which continues to be used with updates; and was the co-principal investigator and principal writer for the Frankfurt study comparing vaginal breeches born with the mothers on their backs vs. in upright positions (Louwen et al. 2017). The only midwife in Canada in the last two decades to have achieved official hospital privileges to attend breech births without a transfer to obstetrics, Betty-Anne has been involved with over 170 planned vaginal breech births, and provided workshops, rounds, and/or plenaries on vaginal breech in Europe, Africa, North and South America, China, India, Australia, and Turkey. She has testified for 10 midwifery hearings/court cases and 11 state and 3 provincial legislative processes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Birth in Disruptive Times
Editors: Kim Gutschow, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Betty-Anne Daviss
Series Title: Global Maternal and Child Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54775-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54774-5Published: 23 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54777-6Published: 23 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54775-2Published: 22 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-8382
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8390
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 317
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Maternal and Child Health, Health Policy, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Nursing