Birth Territory and Midwifery Guardianship

Theory for Practice, Education and Research

Kathleen Fahy, Maralyn Foureur, Carolyn Hastie (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2008
Books for Midwives (Verlag)
978-0-7506-8870-3 (ISBN)

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Midwives and healthcare providers are grappling with the issue of rising intervention rates in childbirth and trying to identify ways to reverse the trend. Intervention in childbirth has long-term consequences for women and their children. This work provides evidence-based ideas for restructuring the birth territory to facilitate normal birth.

Midwives and other healthcare providers are grappling with the issue of rising intervention rates in childbirth and trying to identify ways to reverse the trend. It is increasingly accepted that intervention in childbirth has long-term consequences for women and their children. Birth Territory provides practical, evidence-based ideas for restructuring the birth territory to facilitate normal birth.

Links new research findings to birth environments and outcomes.
Describes the elements of an ideal birthing environment.
Suggests how to modify existing maternity services to achieve optimal results.
Investigates the links between the experiences of women and babies, and outcomes.
Explores the effects of legal and socio-political factors.

Introduction

Section 1: Theories and Practices

1 Power and the Social Construction of Birth Territory

2 Theorising Birth Territory

3 Midwifery Guardianship: Reclaiming the Sacred in Birth

4 Territories of the Self and Spiritual Practices During Childbirth

Section 2: Physiology and the Physical Space

5 Creating Birth Space to Enable Undisturbed Birth

6The Spiritual and Emotional Territory of the Unborn and Newborn Baby

7Creating Physical Space

Part 1 The moving, feeling and dreaming body guides architectural design

Part 2 Putting the principles into practice

Section 3: Midwives, Obstetricians and the Maternity Services

8 Being a midwife to midwifery: transforming midwifery services

9 Birth Territory: The role of the obstetrician

10 From Ideal to Real: The interface between Birth Territory and the Maternity Service Organisation

Glossary
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.5.2008
Zusatzinfo	Illustrated; Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
ISBN-10	0-7506-8870-X / 075068870X
ISBN-13	978-0-7506-8870-3 / 9780750688703
Zustand	Neuware