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Record Nr.

UNISA996199892403316

Titolo

Birth by design : pregnancy, maternity care, and midwifery in North America and Europe / / edited by Raymond DeVries. [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

1-134-00157-6

1-134-00158-4

1-280-40722-0

0-585-45207-5

0-203-90240-8

9786610407224

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

De VriesRaymond G

Disciplina

362.1982

362.19820094

Soggetti

Maternal health services - North America

Maternal health services - Europe

Maternal health services - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; INTRODUCTION: WHY MATERNITY CARE IS Not MEDICAL CARE; INTRODUCTION TO PART I; WHERE TO GIVE BIRTH? POLITICS AND THE PLACE OF BIRTH; THE STATE AND BIRTH/THE STATE OF BIRTH: MATERNAL HEALTH POLICY IN THREE COUNTRIES; CHANGING BIRTH: INTEREST GROUPS AND MATERNITY CARE POLICY; REFORMING BIRTH AND (RE)MAKING MIDWIFERY IN NORTH AMERICA; LOOKING WITHIN: RACE, CLASS, AND BIRTH; INTRODUCTION TO PART II; DECIDING WHO CARES: WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY; DESIGNING MIDWIVES: A COMPARISON OF EDUCATIONAL MODELS; TELLING STORIES OF MIDWIVES

SPOILING THE PREGNANCY: PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS IN THE NETHERLANDSINTRODUCTION TO PART III; MATERNITY CARE POLICIES AND MATERNITY CARE PRACTICES: A TALE OF TWO GERMANYS; CONSTRUCTING RISK: MATERNITY CARE, LAW, AND MALPRACTICE;



OBSTETRICAL TRAJECTORIES: ON TRAINING WOMEN/BODIES FOR (HOME) BIRTH; WHAT (AND WHY) DO WOMEN WANT? THE DESIRES OF WOMEN AND THE DESIGN OF MATERNITY CARE; The Politics of Numbers:The Promise and Frustration of Cross-National Analysis; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the US, Canada, and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. A groundbreaking work which gives a truly international understanding.