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Autore: | De Vries Raymond |
Titolo: | A Pleasing Birth [[electronic resource] ] : Midwives And Maternity Care |
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 |
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