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1 online resource (x, 169 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery Ser |
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Routledge research in nursing and midwifery.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; About the author; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part I: An invitation into a clearing; Reference; Chapter 1: Introduction; An ontological inquiry; What do I bring?; Research design; Introducing the participants; The women; The birth partners; The midwives; The obstetricians; Structure of the book; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Philosophical underpinnings; Tradition; What is phenomenology?; What is a phenomenon?; What is hermeneutics?; What is hermeneutic phenomenological as research method? |
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What is the experience of joy at the birth of a baby and how is this joy significant and meaningful?Dasein and mortals; Thrownness; Attunement and mood; Messengers, hints and gestures; Structure of care; Understanding and interpretation; Pre-understandings and reflexivity; Historical effective consciousness; Hermeneutic circle and fusion of horizons; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Context and mood; Influences on birth-attunement; The voice of the One shaping birth; Magical and sacred protection; Others at birth begins; Birth as women's business; Bible and birth |
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Fear of birth and magical womenPain and joy; Early men-midwives at birth; Indigenous birth cultures and colonisation; Popular fiction; Technology era; Obstetrician; Evolution of pain-free birth; Maternal death; Domestic to public; Industrialisation and medicalisation; Antenatal care and focus on the baby; Evolution from social to technocratic; Mood at birth begins to be reawakened; Feminism and birth; Apogee of 'good birth'; Fathers and intimate others welcomed at birth; Returning to relationships; Media attunement; Contemporary birth mythology; Conclusion; Notes; References |
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Part II: A journey of poiesisReference; Chapter 4: Making joy at birth visible; Safeguarding/sheltering at birth; Solicitous care; Protecting 'something' at birth; Dwelling at birth in a particular way; An essential attunement (mood) at birth; Joy's arrival; Childbirth technology and joy; Conclusion; Sophia; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Joy as spatial and embodied; Embodied joy; Smile all over your body; Tears of joy; Breath; Seeing joy; Joy's fragrance; Joy as tactile; Chocolate feeling; Embodied suddenness; Joy is an embodied experience at birth; Spatial joy; Being-in sacred space |
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Dwelling in a bubbleBeing-in and being-out of birth's felt-space; Space opens in unexpected places; Feeling space as opening; Joy, anxiety and sorrow in the birth space; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Joy as relational gathering; The moment draws near; Being near; Working together; Mood as contagious; Disharmony and resonance; Gathering responsibility; Privileged gathering; Significance of relationships; Being-with-others at birth is sacred; Conclusion; Birth calls us to joyous gathering; Note; References; Chapter 7: Joy as temporal mystery |
| Summary |
To be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context. Through exploration of experiences at birth this book explores joy at birth, which is often ignored and overlooked beyond the activities that help to ensure survival. This book draws on a collection of stories of birth from mothers, birth partners, obstetricians and midwives, that demonstrate joy at birth across professional groups and in different types of births and locations with or without technological interventions. Each chapter introduces stories of joy that highlight embodied, spatial and relational meanings. Employing the Heideggerian notion of a human being, it sketches out an ontological focus that draws our gaze to the everyday taken-for-granted ways of being at birth. Based on phenomenological experiential data and rigorous interpretive analysis underpinned by seminal philosophical writings, this book calls for readers to attend to the wholeness of birth in all situations and at all births in ways not attempted before. It will be of great interest to midwives, and those working in and studying maternity, obstetrics and neonatology, as well as social and medical anthropology, sociology, cultural, organisational and clinical psychology and spirituality |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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How to name that which is ineffable and mysterious? |
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Susan Crowther is a visting professor of midwifery at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, a freelance senior academic, researcher, author, editor, reviewer and occasional locum rural caseload midwife residing in New Zealand |
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Print version record |
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Childbirth -- Psychological aspects
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Childbirth -- Philosophy
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Childbirth -- Social aspects
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Obstetrics -- Technological innovations
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Childbirth.
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Joy.
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Happiness.
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Parturition -- psychology
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Happiness
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joy.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spiritualism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pregnancy & Childbirth.
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Happiness
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Obstetrics -- Technological innovations
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Childbirth -- Social aspects
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Childbirth -- Psychological aspects
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Childbirth
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Joy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429754128 |
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0429754124 |
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9780429424144 |
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0429424140 |
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9780429754104 |
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0429754108 |
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9780429754111 |
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0429754116 |
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