Class Notes

Who Knows More?

-- A male OB/GYN with 25 years experience?

or

--A woman with 5 children?

Is one type of knowledge more valuable than another?

Each knows more than the other, in the different types of knowledge. The male OB/GYN will know the mechanics, the processes, the medical, scientific part of childbirth, while the woman with five kids will know more about the what it feels like, how it will affects a woman emotionally.

MOTHER:

-she knows more about the emotions

-PAIN

-more about 'childbirth' itself, but not the delivery

-experience is key

-introspection, knowing how

-Does she know, scientific knowledge?

-knowing how

-empirical/personal

-knowledge by intstinct

-knowledge by practice-->after 5 children

-direct and immediate

OB/GYN:

-who knows more

-biological aspects

-how to deliver baby

-the childbirth experience may vary depending on woman

-Empirical (it depends on what kind childbirth, but not birth itself)

-Knowing that

-knowing by description

Knowledge by practice--> after 25 years