A Pleasing Birth [[electronic resource] ] : Midwives And Maternity Care

• Autore: De Vries Raymond
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.2/0233/09492; 618.202309492; 618.2023309492
• Soggetto topico: Maternal Health Services; Midwifery; Home Childbirth
• Soggetto geografico: Netherlands
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Birth Care/Health Care; 1. Dutch Birth and the Shape of Health Care; 2. Uniek, Bewonderd, en Verguisd (Unique, Admired, and Reviled); II. Forms; 3. Structuring Care; 4. The Politics of Care; III. Forming; 5. Doe Maar Gewoon (Just Act Normally): Dutch Culture/Dutch Birth; 6. Two Sciences or No Science? Obstetric Research in the Netherlands; IV. Re-Forming; 7. Is All This Suffering Still Necessary? Pressure to Change the Dutch Way of Birth; 8. Re-Forming Health Care: Culture and Health Policy; Glossary; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Women have long searched for a pleasing birth-a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: every other modern nation regards birth as too risky to occur outside a hospital setting. In exp
• Titolo autorizzato: A Pleasing Birth
• ISBN: 1-280-12785-6; 9786613531735; 1-4399-0700-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778940303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II