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Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, highlighting a wide range of variation in practices across cultures. They discuss attitudes and techniques in childbirth, the interaction between human evolutionary form and birthing procedures, the influence of societal factors that differentiate Western from non-Western maternal birthing positions, and the art of midwifery. Also treated are less well-known areas of birthing such as the imagery of birthing, placenta rituals, and popular beliefs about the amniotic membrane called a caul. In addition, the authors explore the humoral medical tradition used in birthing, the possible influence of cultural practices on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), customs and beliefs regarding breastfeeding, weaning, swaddling, and finally a sociobiological perspective on early infant behavior. This book will be valuable for courses in medical sociology and anthropology, public health or behavioral sciences, psychology and psychiatry, and for pre-med students.

Author Biography:

Lauren Dundes is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Health at McDaniel College. She teaches sociology, criminology and criminal justice, and medical sociology.
Release date NZ
May 25th, 2003
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Contributions by Allison Newman Turner
  • Contributions by Brian Bates
  • Contributions by Elaine Jones & Margarita A. Kay
  • Contributions by James J. McKenna
  • Contributions by Michael Newton
  • Contributions by Niles Newton
  • Contributions by Sheila Cosminsky (Rutgers University
  • Contributions by Thomas R. Forbes
  • Contributions by Wenda R. Trevathan
  • Edited by Lauren Dundes
Pages
256
Dimensions
143x225x14
ISBN-13
9780759102651
Product ID
1832415

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