Reviews for Naturebirth: Preparing for Natural Birth in an Age of Technology (Health Library)

The average rating for Naturebirth: Preparing for Natural Birth in an Age of Technology (Health Library) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-27 00:00:00 David Ruiz If computer and technology access and literacy benefit the individual, the corollary is that the community benefits too. Digital Inclusion tries to measure the benefits of community technology. The examples of community technology centers in the Crandall & Fisher book show who are using these centers, how they are using them, and what are the outcomes (benefits). Like most CTCs, those in Washington aim to provide computer access and technology literacy to lower income people. These users in turn teach and help their families and the community benefits in many ways. Digital inclusion is still relatively new and people in the field are still trying to figure out what is the best way to measure the impact. Mostly these case studies used interviews and focus groups and put the results (outcomes) into six categories: Academic Skills and Literacy; Access to Information and Resources; Employment and Economic; Social Inclusion and Personal Growth; Independence; and other. Each CTC studied in this book was different from the others, yet the results—the benefits listed by the users—were similar. Some people who learn skills at their CTC return to teach others. At the Tacoma clubhouse, giving back to the community was a "critical element;" an example was that youth from the clubhouse went outside of their organization to provide a technical service to another non-profit community organization. Should it be a requirement for users of CTCs to "give back," to spread their knowledge to others once they are confident in the skills they want to learn? As I read the case studies in Digital Inclusion and the article about the new digital divide and minorites, I think how technology has become a skill as basic as reading and writing in our society. This is reflected in schools which teach reading, writing, math and technology equally. Chapters 12-14 in DI discuss communicating the outcomes of CTCs to policy makers. I think the metrics of inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts are a good measurement. In chapter 14 they presented a fictional CTC in relation to these metrics. This made it easy for me to understand, but I wonder why they needed to create a fictional CTC to show this. Does anyone else think that this made it conveniently tidy and thus, unrealistic? Included are three appendices.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-03 00:00:00 Nicholas J Casale III Very good posthumous article collection. My focus what on the excellent "Traditional Cosmology and Modern Science" part, which includes strong criticism and good remarks on Modern Physics, Traditional Symbolism and Modern Empiricism, Evolutionism and Modern Psychology. Interesting to note that during the same year (1984) where this collection was released, Wolfgang Smith also released a book on the same topics (Cosmos and Transcendence). The latter, concerning Modern Psychology, deserved to be expanded into a full book... Concerning this chapter, Burckhardt himself said, as a summary : "Frithjof Schuon, after reading the present chapter, sent me the following reflections in writing: 'People generally see in Jungism, as compared with Freudism, a step towards reconciliation with the traditional spiritualities, but this is in no wise the case. From this point of view, the only difference is that, whereas Freud boasted of being an irreconcilable enemy of religion, Jung sympathizes with it while emptying it of its contents, which he replaces by collective psychism, that is to say by something infra-intellectual and therefore anti-spiritual. In this there is an immense danger for the ancient spiritualities, whose representatives, especially in the East, are too often lacking in critical sense with regard to the Modern spirit, and this by reason of a complex of ''rehabilitation"; also it is not with much surprise, though with grave disquiet, that one has come across echoes of this kind from Japan, where the psychoanalyst's "equilibrium" has been compared to the satori of Zen; and there is little doubt that it would be easy to meet with similar confusions in India and elsewhere. Be that as it may, the confusions in question are greatly favoured by the almost universal refusal of people to see the devil and to call him by his name, in other words, by a kind of tacit convention compounded of optimism to order, tolerance that in reality hates truth, and compulsory alignment with scientism and official taste, without forgetting "culture", which swallows everything and commits one to nothing, except complicity in its neutralism; to which must be added a no less universal and quasi-official contempt for whatever is, we will not say intellectualist, but truly intellectual, and therefore tainted, in people's minds, with dogmatism, scholasticism, fanaticism, and prejudice. All this goes hand in hand with the psychologism of our time and is in large measure its result." As Buckhardt said : "There are some realms where dilettantism is unforgivable." "It is significant that the tortoise, whose skeleton seems to indicate an extravagant adaptation to an animal 'armoured' state, appears all at once among the fossils, without evolution. Similarly, the spider appears simultaneously with its prey and with its faculty of weaving already developed." An interesting book review of Evola's Ride the Tiger is included aswell.