Background
Davis-Floyd, Robbie Elizabeth was born on April 26, 1951 in Casper, Wyoming, United States. Daughter of Walter Gray and Robbie Elizabeth (Peyton) Davis.
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By Robbie E. Davis-Floyd - Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives: 1st (First) Edition
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Birth in Four Cultures : A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States
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While the process of childbirth is, in some sense, everywhere the same, it is also everywhere different in that each culture has produced a birthing system that is strikingly dissimilar from the others. Based on her fieldwork in the United States, Sweden, Holland, and Yucatan, Jordan develops a framework for the discussion and investigation of different birthing systems. Illustrated with useful examples and lively anecdotes from Jordan's own fieldwork, the Fourth Edition of this innovative comparative ethnography brings the reader to a deeper understanding of childbirth as a culturally grounded, biosocially mediated, and interactionally achieved event. Titles of related interest also from Waveland Press: Gabriel, Touching Bellies, Touching Lives: Midwives of Southern Mexico Tell Their Stories (ISBN 9781478627104); and Holloway, Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali (ISBN 9781577664352).
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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge—the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which decisions are made and actions taken—highlights the vast differences between birthing systems that give authority of knowing to women and their communities and those that invest it in experts and machines. Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge offers first-hand ethnographic research conducted by anthropologists in sixteen different societies and cultures and includes the interdisciplinary perspectives of a social psychologist, a sociologist, an epidemiologist, a staff member of the World Health Organization, and a community midwife. Exciting directions for further research as well as pressing needs for policy guidance emerge from these illuminating explorations of authoritative knowledge about birth. This book is certain to follow Jordan's Birth in Four Cultures as the definitive volume in a rapidly expanding field.
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Birth in Four Cultures : A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States by Brigitte Jordan (1992-11-01)
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage (Paperback) - Common
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This study examines why, despite the growing strength of the natural childbirth movement, women increasingly opt for the standardized routines of hospital births. The author adopts an anthropological perspective and highlights a cultural belief in the superiority of science over nature.
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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives by Robbie E Davis-floyd (1997-08-18)
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. (September 1, 1993) Paperback
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From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey
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Why would a successful physician who has undergone seven years of rigorous medical training take the trouble to seek out and learn to practice alternative methods of healing such as homeopathy and Chinese medicine? From Doctor to Healer answers this question as it traces the transformational journeys of physicians who move across the philosophical spectrum of American medicine from doctor to healer. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John conducted extensive interviews to discover how and why physicians make the move to alternative medicine, what sparks this shift, and what beliefs they abandon or embrace in the process. After outlining the basic models of American health care-the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic-the authors follow the thoughts and experiences of forty physicians as they expand their horizons in order to offer effective patient care. The book focuses on the radical shift from one end of the spectrum to the other-from the technocratic approach to holism-made by most of the interviewees. Because many American physicians find such a drastic change too threatening, the authors also address the less radical transition to humanism-a movement toward compassionate care arising from within the medical system.
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage
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Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever.
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Robbie Elizabeth Davis-Floyd
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Bachelor summa cum laude with special honors, University Texas, 1972; Master of Arts in Anthropology/Folklore, University Texas, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology/Folklore, University Texas, 1986.
Career
Teacher high school, St. Mary's Hall, San Antonio, 1977-1979; teaching assistant department anthropology, University Texas, Austin, 1979; adjunct assistant professor department sociology/anthropology, U. Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1980-1983; assistant professor department anthropology, Trinity U., San Antonio, 1987-1989; visiting lecturer department anthropology, Rice U., Houston, 1993-1996; research associate department anthropology, Rice U., Houston, 1994-1996; research fellow department anthropology, University Texas, Austin, 1994-1996. Lecturer and presenter in field.
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From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage
( Why do so many American women allow themselves to becom...)
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Birth in Four Cultures : A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States
(While the process of childbirth is, in some sense, everyw...)
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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
( This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on r...)
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage (Paperback) - Common
(This study examines why, despite the growing strength of ...)
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By Robbie E. Davis-Floyd - Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives: 1st (First) Edition
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. (September 1, 1993) Paperback
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- Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden and the United States Fourth Edition
- Birth in Four Cultures : A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States by Brigitte Jordan (1992-11-01)
- Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives by Robbie E Davis-floyd (1997-08-18)
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From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey
Membership
Member APHA, American Anthropol. Association, Society for Social Study of Science, Society for Medical Anthropology, Association for Feminist Anthropology, American Holistic Medical Association, American Ethnological Society, American Folklore Society, Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (board directors), Council on Anthropology andReprodn., International Childbirth Education Association, Midwive's Alliance of North America, Social Neurosci. Network, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.
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Married Robert Newton Floyd, June 30, 1978. Children: Peyton Elizabeth, Jason Phillip.
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Recipient Fetzer Institute award, 1994. Faculty development grantee Trinity U., 1988-1989, National Endowment for Humanities grantee, 1980. Research fellow University Texas. Recipient ASPO/Lamaze Research award.Recipient Fetzer Institute award, 1994. Faculty development grantee Trinity U., 1988-1989, National Endowment for Humanities grantee, 1980. Research fellow University Texas.
Recipient ASPO/Lamaze Research award.