{"product_id":"9780826515773","title":"At Work in the Field of Birth: Midwfery Narratives of Nature, Tradition, and Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Work in the Field of Birth\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the public health care system. In January 1994, after decades of lobbying by midwives and their supporters, the province of Ontario recognized midwifery as a profession for the first time in more than a century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough stories about becoming and being a midwife and stories about receiving midwifery care, this book describes how fundamental tenets of midwifery philosophy and practice--the meaning of tradition, natural birth, and home birth, and the place of medical technology in midwifery--are being reworked by the practical and ideological challenges of midwifery's new place within the formal health care system. MacDonald presents contemporary midwifery as a complex cultural system in which \"nature\" and \"tradition\" emerge as dynamic rather than esssentialized social categories of meaning and experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017577906416,"sku":"9780826515773","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826515773_p0.jpg?v=1763749663","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826515773","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}