Robbie Davis-Floyd

Born: 1951-04-26

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Robbie Davis-Floyd is an American cultural, medical, and reproductive anthropologist, researcher, author, and international speaker primarily known for her research on childbirth, midwifery, and obstetrics. She chose to study women's birth experiences due to her own birth experiences and espouses the viewpoint that midwives play an important role in safeguarding positive outcomes for women giving birth. Beginning in 1983, she has given over 1000 presentations at universities and childbirth, midwifery, and obstetric conferences around the world. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robbie Davis-Floyd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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