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The foundation between midwife and mother is the foundation upon which maternity care depends. Covering completely new topics areas, the new edition of this ground-breaking text brings together classic and current research to establish key tenets for maternity care within hospital and home.
This ground-breaking essential text reaffirms the fragility and the power of the relationship between midwife and mother and remains the definitive guide to the complex area of midwife-mother relations.
New to this Edition:
- Fully revised and expanded to reflect key developments in midwifery philosophy over the past decade, applying a theoretical approach to emerging concepts such as emotional labour and midwifery partnership
- Covers completely new topics areas, including the effects of emotional labour, poverty and health policy
- Combines new works from the previous edition with new chapters on innovative midwifery practice
- Brings together classic and current research to establish key tenets for maternity care within hospital and home
Table of Contents
The Maternity Services Context; M.Kirkham
The Less We Do the More We Give; N.Leap
Emotion Work and Relationships in Midwifery; R.Deery & B.Hunter
The Midwife: a Professional Servant? M.Cronk
Poor Relations: the Paucity of the Professional Paradigm; R.Wilkins
'There's so much potential...and for whatever reason it's not being realised' Women's Relationships with Midwives as a Negotiation of Ideology and Practice; N.Edwards
Feeling Safe Enough to Let Go: the Relationship between a Woman and her Midwife during the Second Stage of Labour; T.Anderson
The Midwife/Mother Relationship where there is Poverty and Disadvantage; A.Gaudion & C.Homeyard
Pakistani Muslim Women and Midwives Relationships: What are the Essential Attributes?; K.Bharj & M.Chesney
Midwifery Relationships with Childbearing Women at Increased Risk; M.Berg
Midwives' Personal Experiences and their Relationships with Women: Midwives without Children and Midwives who have Experienced Pregnancy Loss; C.Bewley
Midwifery Partnership: a Professionalising Strategy for Midwives; S.Pairman
The Midwife as Container; M.Taylor
We Need to Relate; M.Kirkham.
Product details
| Published | 15 Sep 2010 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Extent | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781137041333 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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