Full Description
This book shines a light on the way in which risk - in and beyond childbirth - is highly contextual, and the way in which risk-management strategies can be understood as socially and materially constructed.
Contents
Chapter One: Birth as/in unprecedented times.- Chapter 2: Locating risk and fear in childbirth.- Chapter 3: Whose knowledge matters and what knowledge counts: the role of knowledge and expectations in childbirth and perinatal experience.- Chapter 4: Risk and loss of autonomy during birth.- Chapter 5: Birthing in unprecedented times.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
