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Title Birth models that work / edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd [and others]
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 484 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Dutch obstetrical system : vanguard of the future in maternity care / Raymond De Vries [and others] -- The New Zealand maternity system : a midwifery renaissance / Chris Hendry -- The Ontario midwifery model of care / Margaret E. MacDonald and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault -- Samoan midwives' stories : joining social and professional midwives in new models of birth / Lesley Barclay Utumuu -- The Albany midwifery practice / Becky Reed and Cathy Walton -- Small really is beautiful : tales from a freestanding birth center in England / Denis Walsh -- Transforming the culture of a maternity service : St. George Hospital, Sydney, Australia / Pat Brodie and Caroline Homer -- Maternity homes in Japan : reservoirs of normal childbirth / Etsuko Matsuoka and Fumiko Hinokuma
The northern New Mexico midwifery center model, Taos, New Mexico / Elizabeth Gilmore -- Teamwork : an obstetrician, a midwife, and a doula in Brazil / Ricardo Herbert Jones -- The CASA Hospital and professional midwifery school : an education and practice model that works / Lisa Mills and Robbie Davis-Floyd -- Mercy in action : bringing mother- and baby-friendly birth centers to the Philippines / Vicki Penwell -- Circles of community : the CenteringPregnancy Group prenatal care model / Sharon Schindler Rising and Rima Jolivet -- Humanizing childbirth to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality : a national effort in Brazil / Daphne Rattner [and others] -- "Orchestrating normal" : the conduct of midwifery in the United States / Holly Powell Kennedy
Summary This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal physiological birth; deal appropriately with complications; and generate excellent birth outcomes--including psychological satisfaction for the mother. The book concludes with a description of the ideology that underlies all these working models--known internationally as the midwifery model of care.--publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Maternal health services -- Cross-cultural studies
Childbirth -- Cross-cultural studies.
Labor (Obstetrics) -- Cross-cultural studies
Midwifery -- Cross-cultural studies
Birthing centers.
Cross-cultural studies.
Delivery (Obstetrics)
Women midwives.
Midwives.
Midwifery.
Maternal Health Services
Birthing Centers
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Delivery, Obstetric
Midwifery
Models, Organizational
Nurse Midwives
midwives.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pregnancy & Childbirth.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Women midwives
Midwives
Delivery (Obstetrics)
Cross-cultural studies
Birthing centers
Childbirth
Labor (Obstetrics)
Maternal health services
Midwifery
Moeder-kind-relaties.
Geboorte.
Ontwikkelingslanden.
Consumptiemaatschappij.
Consultatiebureaus.
Interculturele vergelijking.
Moederschapszorg.
Zwangerschap.
Mödrahälsovård.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Essays.
Form Electronic book
Author Davis-Floyd, Robbie
LC no. 2008037220
ISBN 9780520943339
0520943333
1283277190
9781283277198
9786613277190
6613277193