Midwifery & the Medicalization of Childbirth

Comparative Perspectives

George Lowis, Peter McCaffery, Maureen Porter (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

393 Seiten

2004
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-59454-031-8 (ISBN)

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This book provides an introduction to the sociological study of midwifery. The readings have been selected to highlight the interplay between midwifery and medicine, reflecting the medicalisation of childbirth. It highlights the major themes in both a historical and a current context, as well as western and non-western societies. Two major themes underlie the organisation of this book: that the conception of midwifery must be broadened to encompass a sociological perspective; and that the ongoing trend toward the medicalisation of midwifery is crucial to an understanding of the historical, current, and future status of midwifery. By medicalisation of childbirth and midwifery the author mean the increasing tendency for women to prefer a hospital delivery to a home delivery, the increasing trend toward the use of technology and clinical intervention in childbirth, and the determination of medical practitioners to confine the role played by midwives in pregnancy and childbirth, if any, to a purely subordinate one.

Edwin van Teijlingen, George Lowis, Peter McCaffery, and Maureen Porter, Editors

PARTIAL CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; General Introduction (Van Teijlingen el al.); Sociological Factors Affecting the Medicalisation of Midwifery (Lowis & McCafffery); Part One: Toward Sociology Of Midwifery; Part Two: Medicalisation Of Childbirth And Midwifery; Introduction: History of Midwifery (Van Teijlingen); Midwives & maternity care in the Roman world; (French); Early Modern Midwifery A Case Study (Weisner); Louyse Bourgeois and the Emergence of Modern Midwifery (Kalisch el al.); Is Childbirth any Place for a Woman? The Decline of Midwifery in Eighteenth-Century England (Schnorrenberg); Perrette The Midwife... (Forbes); The Decline of The Midwife (Donnison); 'The Different Stages of the Elimination of Midwives in Quebec' (Laforce); 'Midwife Regulation, Education, & Practice in the Netherlands'... (Van Lieburg & Marland); Midwifery in Contemporary Western Societies (Porter); Models of Midwifery Care... (McKay); Maternity Home Care Assistants in the Netherlands (Van Teijlingen); The Role and Responsibilities of the Midwife in Scotland (Askham & Barbour); Domino Delivery... (Beck); Changing Childbirth? (Porter); An exception to the Canadian Case: Autonomous Midwifery at the Margins (Benoit); Medical Models and Midwifery: The Cultural Experience of Birth (Lichtman); Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2010
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	280 x 215 mm
Gewicht	1120 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
ISBN-10	1-59454-031-4 / 1594540314
ISBN-13	978-1-59454-031-8 / 9781594540318
Zustand	Neuware