The Production of Authoritative Knowledge in American Prenatal Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2478436 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carole H Browner (0000-0002-6754-389X, Neurobehavioral Systems), Nancy Pre, Nancy Press (Neurobehavioral Systems) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-156 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/maq.1996.10.2.02a00030 |
| PMID | 8744081 |
| OpenAlex | W2110551349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 28 |
Using Jordan's concept of authoritative knowledge, this article describes some of the ways that the prenatal care practices of a group of U.S. women help to consolidate biomedical hegemony. We analyze the considerations that the women took into account when deciding whether or not to accept specific prenatal care recommendations as authoritative, focusing on when and how they used their own "embodied" knowledge and experience as a standard against which to assess the validity of clinical recommendations. The data provide insight into medicalization processes and the role patients themselves play in furthering biomedical hegemony
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Hegemony · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Medicalization · Political science · Prenatal care · Production (economics · Psychiatry · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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Part one
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,41 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 69 |