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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd; Carolyn Fishel Sargent; Foreword by Rayna Rapp
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Twenty years ago when I began investigating obstetrics and midwifery in Yucatan, there were few anthropologists who had even considered these topics in any systematic way.
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- Title Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- Author Robbie E. Davis-Floyd; Carolyn Fishel Sargent; Foreword by Rayna Rapp
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 505
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date 1997-08-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520207851 / 0520207858
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 5.96 x 1.27 in (22.81 x 15.14 x 3.23 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Birth customs, Knowledge, Sociology of
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96048263
- Dewey Decimal Code 392.12
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