{"product_id":"epiduralized-birth-and-nurse-midwifery-maureen-may-phd-9780692517307","title":"Epiduralized Birth and Nurse-Midwifery: Childbirth in the United States. A Medical Ethnography","description":"There exists an abundance of books about childbirth. What has been missing is a work that describes American childbirth from an ethnographic standpoint, utilizing the rich, insightful data that can only be derived from real-life observations of childbirth. This new ethnography, Epiduralized Birth and Nurse-Midwifery: Childbirth in the United States, helps to meet that need. It examines the state of maternity care in the United States through the lens of one midwifery service at a community hospital. The author has based the ethnography on her 2014 dissertation. (Research included a year of on-site observation and interviews.) It is a significant addition to the study of American childbirth and nurse-midwifery. The book describes recent developments in maternity care, what the author refers to as epiduralized birth: a way of birth that is antithetical to ecological birth. The book also describes care provided by a nurse-midwifery service, care that involves a \"normality paradox\" among midwives who must negotiate highly technicalized care that often runs contrary to their professional and personal values. Epiduralized birth is an assembly-line process where all interventions are integrated, inseparable, and interdependent elements of a single process - a process that has the epidural at its core. Birth has moved beyond the cascade of interventions. The cascade of interventions has been standardized to make up a systematic, interdependent group of elements that make up a highly technical process: a process that includes all interventions as an entirety, as in a well-oiled machine. Industrialized birth is discussed with rich, detailed ethnographic data. This medical ethnography is interdisciplinary. As such, it has much to offer a variety of disciplines including but not limited to the study of childbirth, women's health, anthropology, sociology, health care sciences, public policy, and women's studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maureen May Phd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692517308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692517307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Maureen May\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.62d","brand":"Maureen May Phd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925677113599,"sku":"9780692517307","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bee5227b-ca16-4777-9980-1d6d01f38baf.jpg?v=1681078693","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/epiduralized-birth-and-nurse-midwifery-maureen-may-phd-9780692517307","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}