Cecilia Benoit / Edwin Teijlingen (eds.)

Birth By Design

Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe
Herausgeber: Benoit, Cecilia; Teijlingen, Edwin Van; De Vries, Raymond

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together the leading experts in maternity care from the USA, Canada and Europe to discuss the history and current state of pregnancy and childbirth. The collection provides comparative perspectives of pregnancy for a truly international understanding of maternity care. Birth By Design includes a foreword by Robbie Davis Floyd, and original and essays by such notable names in the field as Barbara Katz Rothman and Raymond DeVries.

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This collection of essays contains leading research in maternity care from Europe, the United States and Canada to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. Birth By Design focuses on the practical side of 'good' social science research. This is a ground-breaking work that looks not only at maternity, but also the act of childbirth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780415923385
• ISBN-10: 0415923387
• Artikelnr.: 21483522

Autorenporträt

Raymond De Vries, Cecilia Benoit, Edwin van Teijlingen, Sirpa Wrede

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Politics of Maternity Care Introduction Sirpa Wrede 1. Where to Give Birth? Politics and the Place of Birth Eugene Declercq
Raymond DeVries
Kirsi Viisainen
Helga B. Salvesen
and Sirpa Wrede 2. The State and Birth/The State of Birth: Maternal Health Policy in Three Countries Sirpa Wrede
Cecilia Benoit
and Jane Sandall 3. Changing Birth: Interest Groups and Maternity Care Policy Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Eugene Declercq
and Jane Sandall 4. Reforming Birth and (Re)Making Midwifery in North America Betty-Anne Daviss 5. Looking Within: Race
Class
and Birth Margaret K. Nelson and Rebecca Popenoe Part II: Providing Maternity Care Introduction Edwin R. van Teijlingen 6. Deciding Who Cares: Winners and Losers in the Late Twentieth Century Jane Sandall
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Wouter J. Meijer
and Beate A. Schüecking 7. Designing Midwives: A Comparison of Educational Models Ceclia Benoit
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Edwin R. van Teijlingen
Jane Sandall
and Janneli F. Miller 8. Telling Stories of Midwives Leonie van der Hulst and Edwin R. van Teijlingen 9. Spoiling the Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis in the Netherlands Barbara Katz Rothman Part III: Society
Technology
and Practice Introduction Cecilia Benoit 10. Maternity Care Policies and Maternity Care Practices: A Tale of Two Germanys Susan L. Erikson 11. Constructing Risk: Maternity Care
Law
and Malpractice Elizabeth Cartwright and Jan Thomas 12. Obstetrical Trajectories: On Training Women/Bodies for (Home) Birth Bernike Pasveer and Madeleine Akrich 13. What (and Why) Do Women Want? The Desires of Women and the Design of Maternity Care Raymond DeVries
Helga B. Salvesen
Therese A. Weigers
and A. Susan Williams Appendix: The Politics of Numbers: The Promise and Frustration of Cross-National Analysis Eugene Declercq and Kirsi Viisainen