Imagining accidental fetal citizens: pregnant Mainland women and the cultural politics of birthright citizenship

This essay looks at the mobility of pregnant Mainland women in Hong Kong to expose the reverberations of the SAR government's immigration policies relating to cross-border birth tourism. Pregnant Mainland women and their children (fetuses), as emergent social subjects, embody conflict and the negotiation between population governance and economic benefits. The government denies pregnant Mainland women the right to give birth in Hong Kong based on their non-eligible status while admitting their children to be born in Hong Kong on the grounds that their children meet Hong Kong's future demand for population renewal, in this way boosting the development of childbirth tourism. However, the localism, which has had an extensive influence on Hong Kong local society in recent years, has rejected the SAR government's “population renewal” imaginary by suggesting its own “locust imaginary.” The government's acceptance and the local's exclusion of the population flow between China and Hong Kong imply distinct cross-border subject imaginations. Only by contextualizing and critically analyzing the various othering identities such as the non-eligible or locusts can we better understand the cultural politics of Hong Kong birthright citizenship over recent years.     

出生率的日节律:基于家谱资料

据 1 42 7～ 1 971年汉族家谱和圆形分析,表明男婴出生率亥时最高,申时最低 ;女婴出生率子时最高,戌时最低.男婴、女婴平均出生高峰时间分别为 2 2时 49分和 2 3时 2 5分,二者差异不显著 (P>0.0 5 ),男婴和女婴合并为 2 3时 1 1分.男婴、女婴夜间出生率比白天分别高1 2个和 1 1个百分点,差异均极显著 (P<0.0 1 ).男婴阳时、阴时出生率分别为 42.65 %和5 7.35 %,差异极显著 ;女婴分别为 46.78%和 5 3.2 2 %,差异接近显著 (P =0.1 0 ).古代和近现代男婴最大出生率均出现在亥时,女婴均在子时.男婴、女婴的出生时辰与出生月份之间均存在显著相关.随着产妇年龄的增加,男婴出生时间似有推迟趋向,但线性关系未达显著水准.     

生灭过程的构造与泛函分布

综述生灭过程中的构造以及此类过程的积分型泛函的分布.当过程中断时,构造出全部过程,证明全体生灭过程与全体特征数列间存在一一对应.研究依赖于过程的轨道的积分型泛函,给出这种泛函分布的Laplace变换的递推关系,特别,对停留时求出其分布函数的表达式.     

They Said So on the News: Parsing Media Reports About Birth

In this column, the authors reprise recent selections from the Lamaze International research blog, Science & Sensibility. Each selection discusses shortcomings in the news media coverage of childbirth issues. The authors demonstrate how to identify misleading claims in the media and highlight how childbirth educators can apply a common-sense approach and careful fact checking to help women understand the whole story.     

Factors associated with labor support behaviors of nurses

Labor support is known to support progress of normal labor. Nurses are encouraged to provide labor support yet may encounter barriers to the practice of labor support. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to examine individual and institutional factors associated with labor support behaviors. Age and experience were individual factors related to labor support. Older and more experienced nurses reported providing more labor support. Institutional factors associated with labor support were lower rates of epidural analgesia use and cesarean surgery. These findings indicate birthing families should understand that the birth environment may influence the care that nurses give during labor. Choosing an environment that supports normal birth may be the best place for receiving labor supportive nursing care.     

生命的诞生与毁灭

人的个体生命通过＂人生＂而被＂演绎出来＂,这种＂演绎＂又显现和凝聚为种种＂人生境界＂。这里,生命的诞生与毁灭,获得与放弃都从不同视域的维度和向度中诠释着生命本身的意义与价值。生命的诞生与毁灭,获得与放弃又通过具体的途径而呈现出来,升华为人的某种＂情怀＂。这正是每个人所必然持有和显现的＂生命的样式＂。它构成＂生命的容颜＂。我们每个人都走在人生的边缘,既有人生的渴望,也有人生的困惑,更有在人生与命运的纠缠中难以回避与言说的有关＂人之为何＂的反思与追问。     

福州市出生人口性别比偏高的原因与对策

依据福建省人口普查和近年人口抽样调查等资料,运用现代人口统计学和人口社会学的有关分析方法,分析得出导致福州市出生人口性别比偏高的主要原因涉及自然及非自然因素两大类,并提出增加农民收入、贯彻实施计划生育政策、建立农村社会保障体系、加强相关法律法规及提高居民受教育水平六条政策建议,力求为政府有关部门研究制定相关决策提供理论参考。     

明代钱塘状元茅瓒生卒年考

明代钱塘状元茅瓒的生年应为正德四年（1509年）,卒年应为嘉靖四十五年（1566年）。     

Witnessing a Natural,Safe, and Healthy Birth

In this column, the editor of The Journal of Perinatal Education discusses her experience witnessing a natural, safe, and healthy home birth. The editor also describes the contents of this issue, which offer a broad range of resources, research, and inspiration for childbirth educators in their efforts to promote normal birth.     

From Psychoprophylactic to Orgasmic Birth

The assumptions on which educators based childbirth education principles were valid when psychoprophylactic birth became available. Yet, educators and health-care providers have changed their assumptions about birth as they have learned more from the midwifery model of care, how women want to give birth, and how capable the body is to give birth. Educators'' teaching must now emphasize the synchrony of hormones that facilitates birth, the Sphincter Law, and the sharing of woman-to-woman stories throughout the generations if birth is to be set in its rightful place—in the hands of the mothers.