Liselotte Kuntner
Liselotte Kuntner (born February 18, 1935 ) is a qualified physiotherapist and ethnologist .
Life and research
She has been concerned with the subject of childbearing posture since the 1970s and was best known for her book Die Gebärhaltung der Frau , published in 1985 . Pregnancy and childbirth from a historical, ethnological and medical point of view and other publications on cross- cultural obstetrics. For this purpose she went on numerous research and study trips. From 1989 to 1999 she was a lecturer at the ethnological seminar at the University of Zurich. Liselotte Kuntner now lives in Küttigen in Switzerland.
On the occasion of her seventieth birthday, Wulf Schiefenhövel described her as "one of the protagonists of the vertical as the natural childbearing posture and has helped shape the practice in our clinics and birthing centers with the Maia obstetric stool that she significantly developed ".
Honors
Since 17 October 2005 she has been an honorary member of the Association ethnomedicine eV
Publications
- The posture of woman giving birth. Pregnancy and childbirth from a historical, ethnological and medical point of view . ISBN 3-88616-062-9 .
- New knowledge and views on posture. Maia the birthing stool . ISBN 3-88616-046-7 .
- Obstetrics outside the hospital in traditional societies . ISBN 3-86135-592-2 .
- With Ines Albrecht-Engel, Christine Loytved and Christine Gottschalk-Betschkus: In waves to the birth. The traditional knowledge of pregnancy and childbirth . ISBN 3-930706-12-1 .
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin eV: Additions to “Records about the posture of women giving birth” (PDF; 109 kB).
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin eV: How to deal with placental burial after birth in a cultural comparison (PDF; 7.1 MB).
Web links
- Literature by and about Liselotte Kuntner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin eV: honorary members . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin eV: The vertical as an optimal posture for childbirth. Liselotte Kuntner on her 70th birthday (PDF; 1.3 MB), article by Wulf Schiefenhövel, accessed on November 7, 2009.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kuntner, Liselotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Physiotherapist and ethnologist on the subject of obstetrics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1935 |