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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Series Overview: The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar
Introduction: Obstetricians Speak
Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar
Chapter 1. On Becoming an Abortion Provider in the US: An Autoethnographic Account
Chapter 2. Abortion, Professional Identity, and Generational Meaning Making among US Ob/Gyns
Rebecca Henderson, Chu J. Hsiao, and Jody Steinauer
Chapter 3. My Transformation from an Obstetrician to a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Subspecialist: Autoethnographic Thoughts on Situated Knowledges and Habitus
Ashish Premkumar
Chapter 4. Cold Steel and Sunshine: Ethnographic and Autoethnographic Perspectives on Two Obstetric Careers in the US from Across the Chasm
Kathleen Hanlon-Lundberg
Chapter 5. An Awakening
Jesanna Cooper
Chapter 6. Repercussions of a Paradigm Shift in the Professional and Personal Life of a Brazilian Obstetrician
Rosana Fontes
Chapter 7. The Bullying and Persecution of a Humanistic/Holistic Obstetrician in Brazil: The Benefits and Costs of My Paradigm Shift
Ricardo Jones
Chapter 8. Hungarian Birth Models Seen Through the Prism of Prison: The Journey of Ágnes Geréb
Ágnes Geréb and Katalin Fábián
Chapter 9. Adopting the Midwifery Model of Care in India
Evita Fernandez
Chapter 10. “Birth with No Regret” in Turkey: The Natural Childbirth of the 21st Century
Hakan Çoker
Chapter 11. Attempting to Maintain a Positive Awareness about Vaginal Breech Birth in Australia
Andrew Bisits
Chapter 12. Mixing Modalities in My Technocratic/Humanistic Obstetric Practice in the US: Ideology and Rationales
Marco Gianotti
Chapter 13. How an Obstetrician Promoted Respectful Care in Canada and in the World
André Lalonde
Conclusions: What Have We Learned from Obstetricians?
Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar
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