davis-floyd@mail.utexas.edu

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Research interests:
A medical anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of reproduction. biomedicine, and alternative health care. Her research on global trends and transformations in health care, childbirth, obstetrics, and midwifery is ongoing.

Recent Publications:
Birth as an American Rite of Passage (1992, 2004); coauthor of From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey (1998)

coeditor of eight collections: Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1997)

Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots (1998)

Reconceiving Midwifery (2004)

Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change (2006).

Birth Models That Work, Midwives in Mexico, and The Anatomy of Ritual are in process.