The Social Context of Birth
eBook - ePub

The Social Context of Birth

  1. 346 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Social Context of Birth

About this book

Midwives and other health care professionals need to have a deep understanding of the various lives childbearing women live in order to support them insightfully and practise in a nuanced manner.

The Social Context of Birth has been revised, updated and enlarged to provide an essential understanding of the different lives women live and in which they birth their children. For the first time, it also contains original primary research on the perspectives of student midwives as they progress through their three year training. This comprehensive guide provides countless valuable insights into the many different lives, experiences and expectations of women in their childbearing years in the twenty-first century, especially vulnerable women. Written by a team of highly experienced health professionals, it also covers contentious areas of maternity care, such as new reproductive technologies and fetal surveillance.

A true essential for all healthcare professionals who work with women giving birth, such as midwives, nurses, health visitors and obstetricians, and wish to deepen their knowledge of women's lives.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138196155
eBook ISBN
9781315342610
Edition
3
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Gynecology, Obstetrics & Midwifery

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. The Social Context of Birth: Preface to the Third Edition
  6. 1 Women and society: CAROLINE SQUIRE
  7. 2 Women and sex: SANDY NELSON
  8. 3 Women, poverty and childbirth: CAROLINE SQUIRE
  9. 4 The family: VALENTINE DUNN-TOROOSIAN
  10. 5 ‘Race’, ethnicity, culture and childbirth: CAROLINE SQUIRE AND DAVE SOOKHOO
  11. 6 Asylum seeking and refugee women: CAROLINE SQUIRE
  12. 7 Domestic violence in pregnancy: CAROLINE SQUIRE AND SALLY COTTRELL
  13. 8 Female genital mutilation: COMFORT MOMOH
  14. 9 Transition to motherhood: NICOLA WINSON
  15. 10 Maternal–infant attachment: CATHY ROWAN
  16. 11 The medicalisation of childbirth: DR ALYS EINION
  17. 12 The socialisation of student midwives: Rewriting the landscape: DR ALYS EINION
  18. 13 Social support and childbirth: CHRISTINE McCOURT
  19. 14 Unhappiness after childbirth: CHRISTINE GRABOWSKA
  20. 15 Childbirth and sexual abuse during childhood: CAROLINE SQUIRE
  21. 16 Teenage motherhood: LOUISE HUNTER
  22. 17 Women in prison: JULIE JONES
  23. 18 Assisted conception: Threat or opportunity?: MARILYN CRAWSHAW
  24. 19 Fetal surveillance: CHRISTINE GRABOWSKA
  25. 20 Breastfeeding: A natural phenomenon or a cultural construct?: CATHRYN BRITTON
  26. 21 Experiencing disability: HARRIET CLARKE
  27. Index