Birth Models That Work

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This groundbreaking book explores maternity care models from around the world that effectively support childbirth. Drawing on examples from both developing and industrialised countries, the contributors showcase services that prioritise physiological birth, appropriately manage complications, and deliver excellent outcomes including psychological satisfaction for mothers. The work culminates in a discussion of the midwifery model of care, the ideology that underpins these successful approaches.
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Ideal for health professionals, midwives, and anyone interested in innovative, evidence-based maternity care and improving birth experiences globally.

Takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. This book describes examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply the scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal physiological birth.

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This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere.

The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialised societies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal physiological birth; deal appropriately with complications; and generate excellent birth outcomes—including psychological satisfaction for the mother.

The book concludes with a description of the ideology that underlies all these working models—known internationally as the midwifery model of care.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520258914

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 9 line illustrations, 18 tables, 15 boxes

Contributors:

Edited by Betty-Anne Daviss
Edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Edited by Lesley Barclay
Edited by Jan Tritten

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 771g

Pages: 496

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction

About the Author

Robbie E. Davis-Floyd is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University of Texas, Austin, and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage (second edition, UC Press), among other books. Lesley Barclay is Director and Professor at the Centre for Family Health and Midwifery at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Betty-Anne Daviss is a practicing midwife and Adjunct Professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies at Carleton University. Jan Tritten is founder and editor-in-chief of Midwifery Today magazine.