Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities: Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

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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. Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Darker and the Lighter Sides of Biomedical Maternity Care Part 1. Obstetric Violence and Systematic Racial, Ethnic, Gendered, and Socio-Structural Disparities in Obstetricians’ Practices Chapter 1. Obstetricians and the Delivery of Obstetric Violence Chapter 2. “Bad Pelvises” Chapter 3. “Selfish Mothers,” “Misinformed” Childbearers, and “Control Freaks” Chapter 4. Implicit Racial Bias in Obstetrics Chapter 5. Censusing the Quechua Part 2. Decolonizing and Humanizing Obstetric Training and Practice? Obstetricians, Midwives, and Their Battles against “The System” Chapter 6. Decolonizing Biomedical Education in the UK Chapter 7. Teaching Humanistic and Holistic Obstetrics Chapter 8. The Inconsistent Path of Russian Obstetricians to the Humanization of Childbirth in Post-Soviet Maternity Care Chapter 9. The Paradigm Shifts of Humanistic and Holistic Obstetricians Chapter 10. Interprofessional Education for Medical and Midwifery Students in Aotearoa New Zealand Chapter 11. The Changing Face of Obstetric Practice in the United States as the Percent of Women in the Specialty Has Grown Part 3. The Ethnographic Challenges of Gaining Access to Obstetricians for Surveys, Interviews, and Observations Chapter 12. The Ethnographic Challenges of Gaining Access to Obstetricians for Surveys, Interviews, and Observations Conclusions. Concepts, Conceptual Frameworks, and Lessons Learned Series Conclusions. Creating the Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians and Suggesting Directions for Future Research Index