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The use of nurse-midwives for the maternity care of mothers has been very limited in the United States as compared to other countries. However, during recent years, interest in the nurse-midwife has increased as her potential for helping to extend and improve the quality of maternity care has been recognized. The purpose of the study presented here was to look closely at the extent of midwifery practice in the United States and, at the same time,...
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"Written with a woman-centred approach by leading academics, this book contains approximately 4,000 well-defined terms, with an increased focus on anatomy and physiology. More than 100 illustrations and a suite of comprehensive 'quick reference' appendices support understanding." -- Publisher.
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Records the views of midwives from 23 different countries on a variety of issues that affect pregnancy and childbirth throughout the world. The midwives discuss how their culture influences the way in which women give birth and how midwives practice. They give insight into the impact of female genital mutilation and its effects on labour, about women giving birth in concentration camps, and they give a glimpse of the magic that surrounds the birth...
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"Born with the destiny of becoming a Mayan sacred midwife, Chona Pérez has carried on centuries-old traditional Indigenous American birth and healing practices over her 85 years. At the same time, Chona developed new approaches to the care of pregnancy, newborns, and mothers based on her own experience and ideas. In this way, Chona has contributed to both the cultural continuities and cultural changes of her town over the decades. In Developing Destinies,...
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"The medical model of childbirth emphasizes the pathological potential of pregnancy and birth. An alternative model championed by midwives focuses on the normalcy of pregnancy and its potential for health. This book explains in a comprehensive and authoritative manner the conceptual and philosophical differences between these models and the effects and outcomes of these two different approaches to the care of pregnant women. While acknowledging the...
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Esther Madudu is one of two midwives at the Katine health center, located about two hundred kilometers from the Ugandan capital. Here, there is no electricity and the solar panels no longer work. On average, Esther assists five women a day giving birth and tends to forty women in antenatal care, Monday through Friday. The midwives are also in charge of psychological monitoring, the prevention and treatment of malaria, and vaccinations. Esther earned...
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In a unique and detailed historical study, Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession, Laura E. Ettinger fills a void with the first book-length documentation of the emergence of American nurse-midwifery. This occupation developed in the 1920s involving nurses who took advanced training in midwifery. In Nurse-Midwifery, Ettinger shows how nurse-midwives in New York City; eastern Kentucky; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other places both rebelled...
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"In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and babies. Written for mothers and fathers, obstetricians, nurses, midwives, scientists, insurance professionals, and anyone contemplating having a child, this book documents...
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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...
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San Lucas Quiavini is located at the foot of the mountains in the Oaxaca Valley, the most American Indian region of Mexico. A fifth of the population does not speak Spanish, yet Catholic fervor is omnipresent. Bernard Fontanille meets traditional midwife (partera) Paulina whose role includes that of a traditional doctor (curandera) and spiritual healer. Paulina is a Zapotec, one of the country's major indigenous peoples.
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"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
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