UID:
almafu_9958106127102883
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-00157-6
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1-134-00158-4
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1-280-40722-0
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0-585-45207-5
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0-203-90240-8
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9786610407224
Content:
This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the US, Canada, and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. A groundbreaking work which gives a truly international understanding.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; INTRODUCTION: WHY MATERNITY CARE IS Not MEDICAL CARE; INTRODUCTION TO PART I; WHERE TO GIVE BIRTH? POLITICS AND THE PLACE OF BIRTH; THE STATE AND BIRTH/THE STATE OF BIRTH: MATERNAL HEALTH POLICY IN THREE COUNTRIES; CHANGING BIRTH: INTEREST GROUPS AND MATERNITY CARE POLICY; REFORMING BIRTH AND (RE)MAKING MIDWIFERY IN NORTH AMERICA; LOOKING WITHIN: RACE, CLASS, AND BIRTH; INTRODUCTION TO PART II; DECIDING WHO CARES: WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY; DESIGNING MIDWIVES: A COMPARISON OF EDUCATIONAL MODELS; TELLING STORIES OF MIDWIVES
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SPOILING THE PREGNANCY: PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS IN THE NETHERLANDSINTRODUCTION TO PART III; MATERNITY CARE POLICIES AND MATERNITY CARE PRACTICES: A TALE OF TWO GERMANYS; CONSTRUCTING RISK: MATERNITY CARE, LAW, AND MALPRACTICE; OBSTETRICAL TRAJECTORIES: ON TRAINING WOMEN/BODIES FOR (HOME) BIRTH; WHAT (AND WHY) DO WOMEN WANT? THE DESIRES OF WOMEN AND THE DESIGN OF MATERNITY CARE; The Politics of Numbers:The Promise and Frustration of Cross-National Analysis; Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-92338-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-92337-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203902400
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