Pushing for Midwives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pushing for Midwives write by Christa Craven. This book was released on 2010-10-22. Pushing for Midwives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the re-emergence of midwifery in America.
Hard Pushed
Hard Pushed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hard Pushed write by Leah Hazard. This book was released on 2019. Hard Pushed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life on the NHS front line, working within a system at breaking point, is more extreme than you could ever imagine. From the bloody to the beautiful, from moments of utter vulnerability to remarkable displays of strength, from camaraderie to raw desperation, from heart-wrenching grief to the pure, perfect joy of a new-born baby, midwife Leah Hazard has seen it all
Pushed
Pushed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pushed write by Jennifer Block. This book was released on 2007-09-10. Pushed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States, more than half the women who give birth are given drugs to induce or speed up labor; for nearly a third of mothers, childbirth is major surgery -- the cesarean section. For women who want an alternative, choice is often unavailable: Midwives are sometimes inaccessible; in eleven states they are illegal. In one of those states, even birthing centers are outlawed.When did birth become an emergency instead of an emergence? Since when is normal, physiological birth a crime? A groundbreaking journalistic narrative, Pushed presents the complete picture of maternity care in America. Crisscrossing the country to report what women really experience during childbirth, Jennifer Block witnessed several births - from a planned cesarean to an underground home birth. Against this backdrop, Block investigates whether routine C-sections, inductions, and epidurals equal medical progress. She examines childbirth as a reproductive rights issue: Do women have the right to an optimal birth experience? If so, is that right being upheld? Block's research and experience reveal in vivid detail that while emergency obstetric care is essential, there is compelling evidence that we are overusing medical technology at the expense of maternal and infant health: Either women's bodies are failing, or the system is failing women.
Nurse-midwifery
Nurse-midwifery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nurse-midwifery write by Laura Elizabeth Ettinger. This book was released on 2006. Nurse-midwifery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 against and served as agents of a nationwide professionalization of doctors and medicalization of childbirth. Nurse-Midwifery reveals the limitations that nurses, physicians, and nurse-midwives placed on the profession of nurse-midwifery from the outset because of the professional interests of nursing and medicine. The book argues that nurse-midwives challenged what scholars have called the "male medical model" of childbirth, but the cost of the compromises they made to survive was that nurse-midwifery did not become the kind of independent, autonomous profession it might have been.
Ways of Knowing about Birth
Ways of Knowing about Birth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ways of Knowing about Birth write by Robbie Davis-Floyd. This book was released on 2017-10-11. Ways of Knowing about Birth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is no other living scholar with Davis-Floyd’s solid roots, activism, and scholarly achievements on the combined subjects of childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and medicine. Ways of Knowing about Birth brings together an astounding array of her most popular and essential works, all updated for this volume, spanning over three decades of research and writing from the perspectives of cultural, medical, and symbolic anthropology. The 16 essays capture Robbie Davis-Floyd’s unique voice, which brims with wisdom, compassion, and deep understanding. Intentionally cast as stand-alone pieces, the chapters offer the ultimate in classroom flexibility and include discussion questions and recommended films.
