A Pleasing Birth

Author : Raymond De Vries,Amsterdam University Press
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Maternal health services
ISBN : 9053567410

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Women have long searched for a pleasing birth—a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: every other modern nation regards birth as too risky to occur outside a hospital setting. In exploring the historical, social, and cultural customs responsible for the Dutch way of birth, Raymond De Vries opens a new page in the analysis of health care and explains why maternal care reform has proven so difficult in the U.S. He carefully documents the way culture shapes the organization of health care, showing how the unique maternity care system of the Netherlands is the result of Dutch ideas about home, the family, women, the body and pain, thriftiness, heroes, and solidarity. A Pleasing Birth breaks new ground and closes gaps in our knowledge of the social and cultural foundations of health care. Offering a view into the Dutch notion of maternity care, De Vries also offers a chance of imagining how Dutch practices can reform health care in the U.S. not just for mothers and babies, but for all Americans.

Author : Raymond De Vries
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1592131026

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Women have long searched for a pleasing birth—a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: every other modern nation regards birth as too risky to occur outside a hospital setting. In exploring the historical, social, and cultural customs responsible for the Dutch way of birth, Raymond De Vries opens a new page in the analysis of health care and explains why maternal care reform has proven so difficult in the U.S. He carefully documents the way culture shapes the organization of health care, showing how the unique maternity care system of the Netherlands is the result of Dutch ideas about home, the family, women, the body and pain, thriftiness, heroes, and solidarity. A Pleasing Birth breaks new ground and closes gaps in our knowledge of the social and cultural foundations of health care. Offering a view into the Dutch notion of maternity care, De Vries also offers a chance of imagining how Dutch practices can reform health care in the U.S. not just for mothers and babies, but for all Americans.

Author : Robbie Davis-Floyd,Melissa Cheyney
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478638988

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Birth in Eight Cultures by Robbie Davis-Floyd,Melissa Cheyney Pdf

This stunning sequel to Brigitte Jordan’s landmark Birth in Four Cultures brings together the work of fifteen reproductive anthropologists to address core cultural values and knowledge systems as revealed in contemporary birth practices in Brazil, Greece, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Tanzania, and the United States. Six ethnographic chapters form the heart of the book, three of which are set up as dyads that compare two countries; each demonstrates the power of anthropology’s cross-cultural comparative method. An additional chapter with ethnographic vignettes gives readers a feel for what fieldwork is really like on the ground. The eminently readable, theoretically rich chapters are enhanced by absorbing stories, photos, quotes, thought questions, and film suggestions that nudge the reader toward eureka flashes of understanding and render the book suitable for undergraduate and graduate audiences alike.

Author : Robbie E. Davis-Floyd,Lesley Barclay,Jan Tritten,Betty-Anne Daviss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520943339

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Birth Models That Work by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd,Lesley Barclay,Jan Tritten,Betty-Anne Daviss Pdf

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.

Author : Rivka Cymbalist
Publisher : Curioso Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Doulas
ISBN : 9780986906602

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The Birth Conspiracy by Rivka Cymbalist Pdf

Author : Cynthia Gabriel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781558328815

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Natural Hospital Birth by Cynthia Gabriel Pdf

Offers expectant mothers seeking natural childbirth in a hospital a detailed look at pregnancy and labor, explaining how to create a mutually supportive relationship among birth-care providers and make informed choices.

Author : Elaine Jefford,Julie Jomeen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000537079

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Empowering Decision-Making in Midwifery by Elaine Jefford,Julie Jomeen Pdf

Decision-making pervades all aspects of midwifery practice across the world. Midwifery is informed by a number of decision-making theories, but it is sometimes difficult to marry these theories with practice. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of decision-making for midwives irrespective of where in the world they practice or in which model of care. The first part critically reviews decision-making theories, including the Enhancing Decision-making Assessment in Midwifery (EDAM) tool, and their relevance to midwifery. It explores the links between midwifery governance, including professional regulation and the law, risk and safety and decision-making as well as how critical thinking and reflection are essential elements of decision-making. It then goes on to present a number of diverse case studies, demonstrating how they interrelate to and impact upon optimal midwifery decision-making. Each chapter presents examples that show how the theory translates into practice and includes activities to reinforce learning points. Bringing together a diverse range of contributors, this volume will be essential reading for midwifery students, practising midwives and midwifery academics.

Author : Charles Roach Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018015513

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Remarks on Shakespeare, his birth-place, etc by Charles Roach Smith Pdf

Author : Jennifer Evans,Ciara Meehan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319441689

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Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century by Jennifer Evans,Ciara Meehan Pdf

This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book explores how these issues have been constructed, represented and experienced in a range of geographical locations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Crossing the boundary between the pre-modern and modern worlds, the chapters reveal the continuities, similarities and differences in understanding a process that is often, in the popular mind-set, considered to be fundamental and unchanging.

Author : Ina May Gaskin
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609801403

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Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin Pdf

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

Author : Richard Huxtable,Ruud ter Meulen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317804567

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The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics by Richard Huxtable,Ruud ter Meulen Pdf

This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the book advances understanding of the academic and social status of European bioethics as it is being supported and practiced by various disciplines such as philosophy, law, medicine, and the social sciences, applied to a wide range of areas. The European focus offers a valuable counter-balance to an often prominent US understanding of bioethics. The volume is split into four parts. The first contains reflection on bioethics in the past, present and future, and also considers how comparison between countries and disciplines can enrich bioethical discourse. The second looks at bioethics in particular locations and contexts, including: policy, boardrooms and courtrooms; studios and virtual rooms; and society, while the third part explores the translation of theories and concepts of bioethics into the clinical setting. Chapter 10 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415737197_oachapter10.pdf

Author : Alois Anton Führer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Buddhist antiquities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030751155

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Monograph on Buddha Sakyamuni's Birth-place in the Nepalese Tarai by Alois Anton Führer Pdf

In the 1870s, the Archaeological Survey of India undertook a series of expeditions to increase understanding of the early history of India and to further the preservation of important monuments and ruins. In 1896 German archaeologist Alois Anton Führer (1853-1930) received permission from the government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh and the government of India to carry out an expedition to Nepal. Führer generally is credited with discovering the birthplace of Buddha. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born in about 563 B.C. at the gardens of Lumbini, in the Nepalese foothills of the Himalayas. The birthplace later became a site for pilgrimages, and among the pilgrims in 249 B.C. was Emperor Ashoka of India, a devout Buddhist. Ashoka erected a commemorative pillar with the words: "Here the Worshipful One was born." For reasons that are not known, after the 15th century Lumbini ceased to attract visitors and its temples fell into ruins. Accompanied by the governor of the province, General Khadga Shamsher, Führer discovered Ashoka's pillar, which, with other evidence, confirmed Lumbini as the birthplace of the Buddha. This monograph, published in 1897, documents the finding of the pillar and the other results of the expedition. Lumbini is one of the four holy places of Buddhism and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997.

Author : William C. Cockerham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119633785

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology by William C. Cockerham Pdf

A comprehensive collection of original essays by leading medical sociologists from around the world, fully updated to reflect contemporary research and global health issues The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is an authoritative overview of the most recent research, major theoretical approaches, and central issues and debates within the field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this wide-ranging volume summarizes significant new developments and discusses a broad range of globally-relevant topics. The Companion's twenty-eight chapters contain timely, theoretically-informed coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and emerging diseases, bioethics, healthcare delivery systems, health disparities associated with migration, social class, gender, and race. It also explores mental health, the family, religion, and many other real-world health concerns. The most up-to-date and comprehensive single-volume reference on the key concepts and contemporary issues in medical sociology, this book: Presents thematically-organized essays by authors who are recognized experts in their fields Features new chapters reflecting state-of-the-art research and contemporary issues relevant to global health Covers vital topics such as current bioethical debates and the global effort to cope with the coronavirus pandemic Discusses the important relationship between culture and health in a global context Provide fresh perspectives on the sociology of the body, biomedicalization, health lifestyle theory, doctor-patient relations, and social capital and health The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in medical sociology, health studies, and health care, as well as for academics, researchers, and practitioners wanting to keep pace with new developments in the field.

Author : William C. Cockerham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444314793

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The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology by William C. Cockerham Pdf

An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the keyconcepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues inmedical sociology. Contains 35 chapters by recognized experts in the field, bothestablished and rising young scholars Covers standard topics in the field as well as new and engagingissues such as bioterrorism, bioethics, and infectious disease Chapters are thematically arranged to cover the major issues ofthe sub-discipline Global range of contributors and an internationalperspective

Author : Crosbie Barnes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326056988

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Behold! the Kingdom by Crosbie Barnes Pdf