Childbirth in the Global Village

Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice

By: Dawn Hillier

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Hardcover | 26 June 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?
Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?
If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?

These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth practices and its implications for midwifery practice and education.
Built around the vivid personal stories of women and midwives experiencing childbirth in four very different cultures

Childbirth in the Global Village will resonate with the experience of midwives everywhere and makes a strong case for redesigning the midwifery curriculum to reflect the interconnectedness of childbirth, midwifery education and practice around the globe.

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List of figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. x
Women's stories, women's lives	p. 1
Four women's stories	p. 1
Cultural messages	p. 8
The global village	p. 12
Symbolic exchanges	p. 14
Reflexive modernity	p. 20
Cultural types	p. 21
Cultural theory and myths of childbirth	p. 24
Conclusion	p. 25
The nature of modernity: Society, development and risk	p. 27
Social consequences of adjustment and restructuring	p. 28
Public health: public trust	p. 32
Experiences of childbirth in Africa	p. 36
Characterising African rural and urban society	p. 40
The reconstruction of childbirth in Africa	p. 45
Penetrating the village: the extension of Western ideology in the practices of traditional midwives	p. 53
Modern rituals and childbirth practices: ritual confusion	p. 54
Conclusion	p. 56
Experiences of childbirth in Malaysia	p. 59
Persistence and change	p. 60
The impact of modernity on Malaysian women in childbirth	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 73
Experiences of childbirth in America	p. 74
American women's lives	p. 75
The egalitarian struggle for authenticity	p. 77
Fast birth: time as the dominant paradigm	p. 80
Birth territory: where women birth	p. 81
Concluding comment	p. 98
Experiences of childbirth in England	p. 100
Hierarchical and egalitarian: opposing approaches to childbirth	p. 104
Risk approach to childbirth: hierarchist model	p. 104
Reconstructing relative risks	p. 109
Why did childbirth have to change?: one woman's experience	p. 110
Striving for egalitarianism	p. 113
The beginnings of change	p. 115
The changing experience of women	p. 115
Symbolic exchanges: recreating childbirth and midwifery	p. 116
Strategies of re-creation	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 123
Symbolic exchanges in childbirth: Reflections from the case studies	p. 125
Symbolic exchanges in childbirth: the influence of science and medicine	p. 126
Furthering the numerical paradigm: 'measuring' the risk of childbirth	p. 127
The struggle for a place in the global village	p. 133
The context of the global village	p. 136
Traditional reliance on inherited and orally transmitted knowledge	p. 137
Modernity: when non-traditional health, education and social supports are available and relied upon more than the traditional	p. 140
Discussion	p. 143
Conclusion	p. 146
Cultural implications for midwifery education and practice	p. 148
Global interconnectedness: local reframing	p. 148
The cultural implications of modernity for the education and training of midwifery practitioners	p. 149
Midwifery education and practice: sociocultural determinants	p. 151
Making midwives: traditional birth attendant training	p. 153
Knowledge production in development ideology	p. 156
Making midwives in the modern world: cultural implications for professional programmes	p. 161
Concluding discussion: in place of development: dialogue not training	p. 162
The midwifery curriculum: A selection from culture?	p. 164
Curriculum as a selection from culture: from content and hierarchist perspectives	p. 164
The hierarchist model of education: curriculum as content: education as transmission	p. 175
Reflecting on distance education	p. 177
The case for indigenous knowledge	p. 178
Curriculum as process and education as development: education through social action and interaction	p. 179
Midwives' stories as vehicles for symbolic exchange: learning from situated knowledge	p. 182
In summary	p. 183
There and back again: The ripples on the pond	p. 184
What do the stories tell us?	p. 186
Concerning cultural types and myths of nature	p. 189
Reflecting on the research	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 223
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