Thanks to Kate for the lovely bunch of flowers |
Friday, December 27, 2013
Holidays: time to reflect and reminisce
Labels:
continuity of care,
epigenetics,
generation,
nurture,
physiology
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Cultutal heritage in need of urgent safeguarding
Recently my attention was drawn to the UNESCO cultural project to develop a list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.
Intangible cultural heritage is knowledge and skill that, unlike monuments or collections of clay pots, cannot be touched. The UNESCO list includes a fascinating range of human activities, from Mongolian calligraphy, to Watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks, to many examples of traditional music and singing.
Readers of this blog may already have joined the dots, and wondered if some aspect of 'midwifery', or 'spontaneous, unmedicated *normal* birth' (or both) could be considered an under intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding?
Is the reality of normal (natural unmedicated physiological) birth something that can be called a cultural heritage, and something worth protecting? I say "YES".
Intangible cultural heritage is knowledge and skill that, unlike monuments or collections of clay pots, cannot be touched. The UNESCO list includes a fascinating range of human activities, from Mongolian calligraphy, to Watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks, to many examples of traditional music and singing.
Readers of this blog may already have joined the dots, and wondered if some aspect of 'midwifery', or 'spontaneous, unmedicated *normal* birth' (or both) could be considered an under intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding?
Is the reality of normal (natural unmedicated physiological) birth something that can be called a cultural heritage, and something worth protecting? I say "YES".
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