{"product_id":"at-work-in-the-field-margaret-macdonald-9780826515773","title":"At Work in the Field of Birth: Midwifery Narratives of Nature, Tradition, and Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Work in the Field of Birth\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the public health care system. In January 1994, after decades of lobbying by midwives and their supporters, the province of Ontario recognized midwifery as a profession for the first time in more than a century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough stories about becoming and being a midwife and stories about receiving midwifery care, this book describes how fundamental tenets of midwifery philosophy and practice--the meaning of tradition, natural birth, and home birth, and the place of medical technology in midwifery--are being reworked by the practical and ideological challenges of midwifery's new place within the formal health care system. MacDonald presents contemporary midwifery as a complex cultural system in which \"nature\" and \"tradition\" emerge as dynamic rather than esssentialized social categories of meaning and experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826515770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826515773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.41w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2008 pg. 119","brand":"Margaret MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926598222079,"sku":"9780826515773","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_062bae48-784b-415d-bdb6-6209c77d52f3.jpg?v=1681083971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/at-work-in-the-field-margaret-macdonald-9780826515773","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}