Overview
- Explores the resurgence of the role of doulas in the child birthing process in Chinese clinical settings
- Explains Chinese women’s relationships with their bodies and on women’s experiences of choice, agency, and access to health and reproductive services
- Examines the role of doulas as lactation consultants, child care providers, and child care educators for women during pregnancy and childbirth
- Offers a unique resource for scholars, researchers, and health practitioners, and clinicians interested in issues related to women, maternity, health care, childbirth, and feminist research in China
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Historical perspectives on Chinese midwifery
- Modern medicine in 20th Century China
- Doulas and doula care
- The Chinese context for doulas
- Chinese women's experiences of labor
- Dissatisfaction with the labor experience
- Sisterhood and love during pregnancy
- Emotional labor in the child birthing process
- Medical procedures around women's bodies in China
- Medical discourses around women's bodies in China
- Obstetricians versus doulas in China
- Family stories in the delivery room
- Future development of doula care in China
- Feminist perspectives on the body, discipline, & childbirth
- Doula care and National Child Policy
- Maternal and Child Health
About this book
This brief explores the resurgence of the role of doulas in the child birthing process in Chinese clinical settings, as a lens to understand comparative pre- and post-natal care worldwide. The demand for doulas in China is increasing, and the rise in the use of doulas is thought to be due to increasing dissatisfaction with current institutional maternity health care. Attention is focused on Chinese women’s relationships with their bodies and on women’s experiences of choice, agency, and access to health and reproductive services as well as maternal health care information and support. Chapters present an overview of the current experience of pre- and post- natal care in China. In addition, chapters explore interview data on how Chinese doulas construct multiple identities, in terms of serving as lactation consultants, child care providers, and child care educators for women during pregnancy and childbirth.
Maternal Healthcare and Doulas in China will be of interest to researchers in public health and health policy, particularly with an interest in maternal health or Asian studies, as well as, health practitioners, and clinicians who are interested in issues related to women, maternity, health care, childbirth, and feminist research in China.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Maternal Healthcare and Doulas in China
Book Subtitle: Health Communication Approach to Understanding Doulas in China
Authors: Zoe Z. Dai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46963-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46962-7Published: 14 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46963-4Published: 13 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 81
Topics: Maternal and Child Health, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Health Policy