Birth Alternatives

How Women Select Childbirth Care

Sandra Howell-White (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

1999
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-29952-0 (ISBN)

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A woman's childbirth care choices have a profound effect on her pregnancy and childbirth experience. Today, some pregnant women have three different options to choose from: obstetrical care and a hospital birth, a midwife-assisted birth in a hospital, and a midwife-assisted birth at an out-of-hospital birthing center. By using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, this volume examines how and why 200 women made their choices, how satisfied they were with the care they received, and the impact of their choices on the availability of options in the future. Although most women in the U.S. still choose an obstetrician and a hospital setting, the number of women who choose to be assisted by a Certified Nurse Midwife is growing, with the result that this profession is acquiring new strength and jurisdiction over childbirth care.

SANDRA HOWELL-WHITE is a Senior Research Associate at the Peer Review Organization of New Jersey, where she examines quality of care issues for women, children, and special needs populations./e A sociologist by training, she has published several journal articles on pregnancy, childbirth care, and mental health and illness.

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.1999
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-313-29952-8 / 0313299528
ISBN-13	978-0-313-29952-0 / 9780313299520
Zustand	Neuware