Normal Childbirth

Evidence and Debate

Susan Downe (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2008 | 2nd edition
Churchill Livingstone (Verlag)
978-0-443-06943-7 (ISBN)

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Offers information on multiple aspects of normal birth, proposing approaches and paradigms for research and practice.

This new edition of Normal childbirth builds on the strengths of the popular first edition, with updated national and international data, and the most recent debate around the controversial area of childbirth.

With the increasing risk of litigation, there can be a tendency to classify women as 'at risk' if they present with even a hint of a problem. This is a contentious area and midwives need to be aware of the wide parameters of 'normal' in order to practise autonomously, effectively and safely.

This book provides an evidence-based source for all midwives and other health professionals with an interest normal birth.

Explores the wider range of normal childbirth that is unique to individual mothers and babies
Challenges the assumptions underpinning current beliefs and attitudes

Updated statistics, both national and international
Latest research and debate

Section 1: Ways of Seeing

1.From being to becoming: reconstructing childbirth knowledge

2.The role of pain in normal birth and the empowerment of women

3.Birth and spirituality

Section 2: Aspects of normality

4.Normal birth: womens' stories

5.Midwives' practices in eleven UK maternity units

6.Midwives constructing 'normal birth'

Section 3: Evidence

7.Risk, safety and the study of physiological birth

8.The early pushing urge: practice and discourse

9.Foetal to neonatal transition: first, do no harm

10.Promoting normal birth: weighing the evidence

11.Aspects of a controversy: summary and debate

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2008
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	246 x 189 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
ISBN-10	0-443-06943-3 / 0443069433
ISBN-13	978-0-443-06943-7 / 9780443069437
Zustand	Neuware