UID:
almafu_9961564938902883
Format:
318 p.
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
0-429-29055-1
,
1-000-09124-4
Content:
This new edition outlines how sustainability can be incorporated into midwifery practice, education and research. It has been thoroughly revised to include new models of sustainable midwifery practice and new chapters on rural midwives and rural communities, social justice, and compassion.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Prologue -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I: The politics of midwifery and sustainability -- 1. Globalisation, midwifery and maternity services: Struggles in meaning and practice in states under pressure -- 2. Costing birth as commodity or sustainable public good -- 3. Social justice, motherhood and midwives -- 4. Valuing the labour of midwives in Ontario, Canada and New Zealand -- PART II: Midwifery as a sustainable healthcare practice -- 5. The midwife as social connector -- 6. Sustained by joy: The potential of flow experience for midwives and mothers and the blocking of that flow -- 7. Sustained by compassion -- 8. Career or life cycle: The phenomenon of transitioning worksetting within midwifery in order to remain personally and professionally sustainable -- 9. Sustaining rural midwives and rural communities -- 10. Good housekeeping in sustainable midwifery practice -- 11. A values-based approach to sustainability literacy in a Bachelor of Midwifery programme -- PART III: Supporting sustainable parenting -- 12. The pregnant environment -- 13. The birthing environment: A sustainable approach -- 14. Antenatal education: Sustaining healthy families -- 15. Climate action and infant feeding -- 16. 'Good mothers' in the age of finance -- Epilogue: Planet and Placenta: A Cycle of Seasonal Correspondence Between Two Old Friends -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-25924-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429290558
Bookmarklink
