Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

<p> <strong>The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series <em>The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice Maintenance and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession</em> looks at the challenges and even violence that obstetricians face across the world.</strong></p><p> 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.</p><p> 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.</p><p> An excerpt:<br /> 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.</p>