Reflections on Midwifery
Published on 23. June 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7020-2125-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is a multi-contributed book which collates and highlights the relevant research (in an accessible way) relating to current issues in midwifery, thereby advancing thinking on where the profession is going (especially in relation to Changing Childbirth (93), and how it will proceed. It will be challenging, controversial, but essential reading for midwives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
Professional and scholarly
All midwives in current practice as well as midwifery students at diploma, degree and post-graduate level.
Illustrations
illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7020-2125-1 (9780702021251)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Mavis Kirkham is currently Professor of Midwifery at the University of Sheffield. She has been a clinical midwife for twenty years and has many years of experience of midwifery education.
Content
The Concept of "Continuity"--What Does It Mean? Gay Lee. Continuity and Choice in Practice: A Study of a Community Based Team Midwifery Scheme, Elizabeth R. Perkins and Judith Unell. Choice in the Face of Uncertainty, Helen Stapleton. "Willing Handmaidens of Science"?: The Struggle Over the New Midwife in Earlier Twentieth Century England, Brooke V. Heagerty. Support and Control in Labour: Doulas and Midwives, Diane Walters and Mavis J. Kirkham. Control for Black and Minority Ethnic Women: A Meaningless Pursuit, Euranis Neile. Midwives and Debriefing, Pauleene Hammett. Midwives Coping: Thinking About Change, Mavis J. Kirkham. Stories and Childbirth, Elizabeth R. Perkins.