ANTHRCUL 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health Promotion, Predictable Process, Stillbirth

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 325
• Professor: J. Henrike Florusbosch

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Lecture 8 notes: bijnor district, western uttar pradesh (india) 1982-86, jefferey and jefferey. "women in dharmnargi and jhakri regard their methods of conducting labor as natural and obvious" Facing up/transverse: the occiput posterior position is with the face up toward the mother"s abdomen, most babies eventually turn on their own, if there"s enough room. In a buttocks breech presentation - head located near the top of the uterus and buttocks facing the birth canal with both legs pointing straight up in front of the body. It is shameful to have the woman"s mother present when she gives birth: compare the use of synthetic oxytocin in the cases described by jeffery et al. and el-nemer et al. Jeffery et al. (up, india: midwives in political-economic setting, subordinated position of women, gupta et al: (ghana) In-depth interview with these women: 21 women, aged 19-45, 1st and 7th pregnancy, how is birth defined in this setting, mechanical, measurable and predictable process.