At Work in the Field of Birth by Margaret Macdonald, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
At Work in the Field of Birth by Margaret Macdonald, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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At Work in the Field of Birth by Margaret Macdonald, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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At Work in the Field of Birth is an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the public health care system. In January 1994, after decades of lobbying by midwives and their supporters, the province of Ontario recognized midwifery as a profession for the first time in more than a century. Through stories about becoming and being a midwife and stories about receiving midwifery care, this book describes how fundamental tenets of midwifery philosophy and practice-the meaning of tradition, natural birth, and home birth, and the place of medical technology in midwifery-are being reworked by the practical and ideological challenges of midwifery's new place within the formal health care system. MacDonald presents contemporary midwifery as a complex cultural system in which \"nature\" and \"tradition\" emerge as dynamic rather than esssentialized social categories of meaning and experience. | At Work in the Field of Birth by Margaret Macdonald, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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