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Sociology of health --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Gynaecology. Obstetrics --- Benin --- Bariba (African people) --- Birth customs --- Midwives --- Bariba (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Naissance --- Sages-femmes --- Medicine --- Médecine --- Rites et coutumes --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- -Birth customs --- -Maternal health services --- -Midwives --- -Birth attendants --- Nurse midwives --- Traditional birth attendants --- Medical personnel --- Midwifery --- Health services, Maternal --- Maternal and child health services --- Maternal and infant health services --- Maternal health care --- Maternity care --- Mother and child health services --- Mothers --- Perinatal care --- Safe motherhood programs --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive health services --- Women's health services --- Maternal and infant welfare --- Birthing customs --- Childbirth --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Medical care --- -Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Médecine --- Maternal health services --- Birth attendants

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This book examines the factors influencing women's choices of obstetrical care in a Bariba community in the People's Republic of Benin, West Africa. When selecting a research topic, I decided to investigate health care among the Bariba for several reasons. First, I had served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in northern Benin (then Dahomey) and had established a network of contacts in the region. In addition, I had worked for a year as assistant manager of a pharmacy in a northern town and had become interested in the pattern of utilization of health care services by urban residents. This three-year residence proved an invaluable asset in preparing and conducting research in the northern region. In particular, I was able to establish relationships with several indigenous midwives whose families I already knew both from prior research experience and mutual friend ships. These relationships enabled me to obtain detailed information regarding obstetrical practice and thus form the foundation of this book. The fieldwork upon which the book is directly based was conducted between June 1976 and December 1977 and sponsored by the F ord-Rockefeller Popula tion Policy Program, the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the FUlbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Program. The Ford-Rockefeller Population Policy Program funded the project as a collab oration between myself and Professor Eusebe Alihonou, Professor Agrege (Gynecologie-Obstetrique) at the National University of Benin.

Bariba (African people) --- Birth customs --- Midwives --- Maternal health services --- Midwifery --- Medicine, Traditional --- Culture --- Maternal health services

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Women --- Sexism in medicine --- Women's health services --- Social medicine. --- Medical anthropology. --- Femmes --- Sexisme dans la médecine --- Femmes --- Médecine sociale --- Anthropologie médicale --- Health and hygiene --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Santé et hygiène --- Aspect sociologique --- Services de santé --- Aspect social

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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.

#SBIB:39A11 --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Birth customs. --- Childbirth --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Birth customs --- Birthing customs --- Connaissance [Sociologie de la ] --- Geboortegebruiken --- Gebruiken [Geboorte] --- Kennis [Sociologie van de ] --- Knowledge [Sociology of ] --- Naissance [Rites de ] --- Rites de naissance --- Sociologie van de kennis --- Sociology of knowledge --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Naissance --- Accouchement --- Sociologie de la connaissance --- Cross-cultural studies --- Rites et coutumes --- Etudes transculturelles --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Childbirth - Cross-cultural studies --- Accouchement naturel --- Obstétrique --- Maternité --- Anthropologie --- Ethnologie --- Études transculturelles

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The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts.

Integrative medicine --- Medical care --- Traditional medicine --- Medical anthropology --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Ethnopharmacology --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Medical pluralism --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Anthropological aspects --- Anthropologie médicale --- Complementary Therapies. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Ethnomedizin. --- Ethnomédecine --- Integrative Medicine. --- Integrative medicine. --- Koexistenz. --- Lokales Wissen. --- Medical anthropology. --- Medical care. --- Medicine, African Traditional. --- Medizinische Versorgung. --- Médecine intégrative --- Schulmedizin. --- Soins médicaux --- Tradition. --- Traditional medicine. --- Africa South of the Sahara. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan. --- Subsaharisches Afrika.