Obstetricians Speak

Obstetricians Speak
Title Obstetricians Speak PDF eBook
Author Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 345
Release 2023-06-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1800738293

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For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation in this the first of the 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession. These stories range from those of abortion providers to those of maternal-fetal medicine specialists. Several chapters tell the stories of obstetricians who have made paradigm shifts from technocratic to humanistic practices, the benefits and joys of these paradigm shifts, and the ostracism, bullying, and outright persecution these humanistic obstetricians have suffered. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual obstetricians. An excerpt from Kathleen Hanlon-Lundberg’s chapter: Largely maligned in reproductive anthropological literature as callous—if not brutal—self-serving effectors of the over-medicalization of childbirth, most obstetricians whom I know and have worked with are devoted to providing respectful, individualized care to their patients.

The Secret Language of Doctors

The Secret Language of Doctors
Title The Secret Language of Doctors PDF eBook
Author Brian Goldman
Publisher Triumph Books
Pages 369
Release 2015-04-01
Genre Medical
ISBN 1629370924

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Most people have visited a doctor's office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure. While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses, rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases we hear practitioners yell across a hospital hallway or murmur to a colleague behind office doors. Doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language, comprised of words unlikely to be found in a medical textbook or heard on television. In The Secret Language of Doctors, Dr. Brian Goldman decodes those code words for the average patient. What does it mean when a patient has the symptoms of "incarceritis"? What are "blocking" and "turfing"? And why do you never want to be diagnosed with a "horrendoma"? Dr. Goldman reveals the meaning behind the colorful and secret expressions doctors use to describe difficult patients, situations, and medical conditions—including those they don't want you to know. Gain profound insight into what doctors really think about patients in this funny and biting examination of modern medical culture.

Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for the Year ...

Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for the Year ...
Title Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for the Year ... PDF eBook
Author American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Publisher
Pages 438
Release 1896
Genre Gynecology
ISBN

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Dissent in Medicine

Dissent in Medicine
Title Dissent in Medicine PDF eBook
Author
Publisher McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Pages 196
Release 1985
Genre Medical
ISBN

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Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics

Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Title Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics PDF eBook
Author Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 334
Release 2023-06-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1800738323

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Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This volume contains social science analyses of Swiss, Chilean, Mexican, US, Greek, and Irish obstetrics and obstetricians, particularly around their reasons for the overuse of cesareans; a chapter on "4 Stages of Cognition" and a condition called "Substage," which describes how these concepts apply to obstetricians; and a chapter on why obstetricians fear home birth. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do. An excerpt from Vania Smith-Oka and Lydia Dixon's chapter: For systemic changes to occur, we must understand doctors’ decision-making rationales and take their fear-based perspectives about risk and responsibility into account, while also paying attention to the concerns raised by scholars and activists.

Obstetric Gazette

Obstetric Gazette
Title Obstetric Gazette PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 662
Release 1890
Genre Children
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Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities
Title Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities PDF eBook
Author Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 376
Release 2023-06-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1800738358

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The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. Part I of this volume addresses obstetric violence and systemic racial, ethnic, gendered, and socio-structural disparities in obstetricians’ practices in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, and the US. Part II addresses decolonizing and humanizing obstetric training and practice in the UK, Russia, Brazil, New Zealand, and the US. Part 3 presents the ethnographic challenges that the chapter authors in Volumes II and III of this series faced in finding, surveying, interviewing, and observing obstetricians in various countries. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome. An excerpt: In our Series Overview in Volume 1, we asked the question, “Can a book create a field?” and answered that question with a resounding “Yes!” ... For us, the official creation of the field of the Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians has taken not one, but the 3 volumes that constitute this Book Series.