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Filtering by: Creator Obermeyer, Angela L. Advisor Cheyney, Melissa Subject Childbirth at home -- Illinois -- Decision making

The political economy of birth choice : mothers' experiences seeking homebirth care in a felonious state

Creator:

Grinager, Grace C.

Abstract:

In this ethnographic study, I examine how women living in downstate Illinois decide to give birth at home. I view decision-making as a process that unfolds throughout pregnancy and continues into the postpartum period, contextualizing "choice" in a region where homebirth is a politically and socially marginalized practice. The methodology...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

Obermeyer 2000;; Otis and Brett 2008;; VanHollen 2003). Common themes from this body of