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Sociology for Midwives

Author : Ruth Deery
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745662800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Sociology for Midwives written by Ruth Deery and published by Polity. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of sociology is now an essential part of all midwifery training, but it can often seem removed from the reality of midwifery practice. Midwives often ask: what is sociology? Why do I need sociology to be a midwife? How can sociology help improve my clinical practice? This major new textbook answers these important questions and shows how sociology can inform the practice of midwifery in the twenty-first century. It provides a comprehensive, jargon-free introduction to sociology for midwifery students with no prior knowledge of the subject, as well as practising midwives with experience of dealing with sociological issues in their daily work. Although the book assumes little or no previous knowledge of sociology it provides enough depth to meet the needs of those with some background in the field. At every stage the links between sociology and everyday practice are emphasised and explained, using a wealth of case studies and examples. The book provides: Clearly defined learning aims and objectives Structured activities and questions for discussion A glossary of key sociological concepts Annotated suggestions for further reading The editors and contributors have considerable experience teaching sociology at diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels to students from many different disciplines. This book will be an indispensable teaching aid within midwifery education, and other relevant health and social care disciplines.

Sociology for Midwives

Author : Carol Kingdon
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1856424936
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Sociology for Midwives written by Carol Kingdon and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces key topics from sociology which are relevant to midwifery audiences. Introductions to the classical theorists and the more recent sociological perspectives that shape contemporary sociology are presented in the context of their applicability to midwifery practice. Complex sociological debates are presented in a simple manner, applying theory to clinical practice.

The Social Meaning of Midwifery

Author : Sheila C. Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349134112
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social Meaning of Midwifery by : Sheila C. Hunt

Download or read book The Social Meaning of Midwifery written by Sheila C. Hunt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-11-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books exist illustrating the power structure of the medical professional, which is male gendered, and its significance for women within this. No study has so far tackled the relationship between women as child birth professionals and women as mothers. The attitude of the midwife towards the labour ward is examined. How the mother is marginalised by the managerial role taken on by the midwife towards the production process (childbirth) and the object of production (child) is the main focus of this book. The stream of feminist orientation, which is said to run through a section of the midwifery profession, is examined.

Sociology for Midwives

Author : Carol Kingdon
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1856424928
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Sociology for Midwives written by Carol Kingdon and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces key topics from sociology which are relevant to midwifery audiences. Introductions to the classical theorists and the more recent sociological perspectives that shape contemporary sociology are presented in the context of their applicability to midwifery practice. Complex sociological debates are presented in a simple manner, applying theory to clinical practice.

The Midwife and Society

Author : Sheila C. Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349136549
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book The Midwife and Society written by Sheila C. Hunt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying sociological theories to midwifery practice, this clear and accessible book offers a broad review of relevant social policies and their philosophy and effects especially on child-bearing women, as well as exploring the social meaning of concepts such as motherhood, fatherhood, professionalisation and the role of the state.

Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice

Author : Patricia Lindsay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317744047
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice written by Patricia Lindsay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery practice and women’s experience of birth. Demonstrating how empathising with women and understanding the context in which they live can affect childbirth outcomes and experiences, this evidence-based text emphasises the importance of compassionate and humane care in midwifery practice. Exploring midwifery as an art, as well as a science, the authors collected here make the case for midwives as professionals working ‘with women’ rather than as birth technicians, taking a purely competency-based approach to practice. The book incorporates a range of pedagogical features to enhance student learning, including overall chapter aims and learning outcomes, ‘recommendations for practice’, ‘learning triggers’ to encourage the reader to delve deeper and reflect on practice, ‘application to practice’ case studies which ensure that the theory is related to contemporary practice, and a glossary of terms. The chapters cover perspectives on birth from sociology; psychology; anthropology; law; social policy and politics. Other chapters address important issues such as disability, politics and sexuality. Outlining relevant theory from the social sciences and clearly applying it to practice, this text is an essential read for all student midwives, registered midwives and doulas.

EBOOK: Sociology and Health Care

Author : Mike Sheaff
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335227856
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Sociology and Health Care written by Mike Sheaff and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-07-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author's agenda in writing the book was to provoke critical thinking and awareness and to move beyond the simplistic rhetoric that so often characterizes much of public debate on health care matters.I have no doubt that he has achieved these aims...and more." Sociology Volume 43, Number 3, June 2009 “Sociology & Health Care is easy to read and offers an introduction into selected, but key areas, of the sociology of health and illness. It is a useful book for health care students as well as health care workers who are interested in the social aspects of their work, their job and how it all fits into the wider society.” Sociological Research Online Are patients ‘customers’? What does this mean for the patient-practitioner relationship? What should the relationship be between expert knowledge and our own experiences when dealing with health and illness? Do people who are better off get better access to health care? Debates about the future of health care bring questions about patient choice, paternalism and inequalities to the fore. This book addresses some of the sociological issues surrounding these questions including: The social distribution of knowledge The basis of professional power Sources of social inequalities in health The ability of health care services to address these issues The book provides suggestions and examples of how sociological concepts and insights can be used to help think about important contemporary issues in health care. For that reason, it has a practical as well as academic purpose, contributing to improvement of the quality of interaction between patients and practitioners. The core themes running throughout the book are inequalities in health and the rise of chronic disease, with particular attention being given to psycho-social models of illness which locate individual experiences within wider social relationships. Sociology and Health Care is key reading for student nurses and those on allied health courses, and also appeals to a wide range of professionals who are interested in current debates in health and social care.

Sociology

Author : Caroline Cox
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483141896
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Sociology written by Caroline Cox and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociology: An Introduction for Nurses, Midwives, and Health Visitors focuses on the approaches, principles, and methodologies involved in sociology, including health care, patient care, social class, educational achievement, and kinship. The book first elaborates on health care from the classical era to the present, population structure and change, and family and kinship. Discussions focus on the family in a changing society, future of the family, population theory of Malthus, world population, developments in anatomy, physiology, and public health in Renaissance Europe, and origins in ancient Greece and Rome. The manuscript then examines social class and social stratification, education, religion, and secularization, and the provision of health care. Concerns include relationship between health care and health need, religion and total patient care, religion in contemporary society, social class and educational achievement, and social class and health. The text takes a look at the need for collaboration between nursing and sociology, sociological aspects of the care of the chronic sick, elderly, and the dying, and the sociological aspects of the care of the mentally ill, including challenges to the concept of mental illness, care of the chronic sick in institutions, and institutional care of the elderly. The manuscript is a dependable source of information for sociologists and researchers interested in sociology.

In the Way of Our Grandmothers

Author : Debra Anne Susie
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820333883
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book In the Way of Our Grandmothers written by Debra Anne Susie and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants, and the women they served, In the Way of Our Grandmothers tells of the midwife's trade--her principles, traditions, and skills--and of the competing medical profession's successful program to systematically destroy the practice. The rural South was one of the last strongholds of the traditional "granny" midwife. Whether she came by her trade through individual choice or inherited a practice from an older relative, a woman who accepted the "call" of midwife launched a lifelong vocation of public service. While the profession was arduous, it had numerous rewards. Midwives assumed positions of leadership within their communities, were able to define themselves and their actions on their own terms, and derived a great sense of pride and satisfaction from performing a much-loved job. Despite national statistics that placed midwives above all other attendants in low childbirth mortality, Florida's state health experts began in the early twentieth century to view the craft as a menace to public health. Efforts to regulate midwives through education and licensing were part of a long-term plan to replace them with modern medical and hospital services. Eager to demonstrate their good will and common interest, most midwives complied with the increasingly restrictive rules imposed by the state, unknowingly contributing to the demise of their own profession. The recent interest of the youthful middle class in home birth methods has been accompanied by a rediscovery of the midwife's craft. Yet the new midwifery represents the state's successful attainment of a long-awaited goal: the replacement of the traditional lay midwife with the modern nurse-midwife. In the Way of Our Grandmothers provides a voice for the few women in the South who still remember the earlier trade--one that evolved organically from the needs of women and existed outside the realms of men.

Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth

Author : Edwin R. Van Teijlingen
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594540318
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth written by Edwin R. Van Teijlingen and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the sociological study of midwifery. The readings have been selected to highlight the interplay between midwifery and medicine, reflecting the medicalization of childbirth. It highlights the major themes in both a historical and a current context, as well as western and non-western societies. Two major themes underlie the organization of this book: that the conception of midwifery must be broadened to encompass a sociological perspective; and that the ongoing trend toward the medicalization of midwifery is crucial to an understanding of the historical, current, and future status of midwifery. By medicalization of childbirth and midwifery the author mean the increasing tendency for women to prefer a hospital delivery to a home delivery, the increasing trend toward the use of technology and clinical intervention in childbirth, and the determination of medical practitioners to confine the role played by midwives in pregnancy and childbirth, if any, to a purely subordinate one.

Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time

Author : Christine McCourt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455866
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (558 download)

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Book Synopsis Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time by : Christine McCourt

Download or read book Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time written by Christine McCourt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth: how women, midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control, but also actively attempt to change established forms of thinking and practice. The stories are engaging as well as critical and invite the reader to think afresh about time, and about reproduction.

African American Midwifery in the South

Author : Gertrude Jacinta FRASER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037200
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book African American Midwifery in the South written by Gertrude Jacinta FRASER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in rural areas. They brought traditional midwives under the control of a supervisory body, and eventually eliminated them. In the writings and programs produced by these physicians and public health officials, Fraser finds a universe of ideas about race, gender, the relationship of medicine to society, and the status of the South in the national political and social economies. Fraser also studies this experience through dialogues of memory. She interviews members of a rural Virginia African American community that included not just retired midwives and their descendants, but anyone who lived through this transformation in medical care--especially the women who gave birth at home attended by a midwife. She compares these narrations to those in contemporary medical journals and public health materials, discovering contradictions and ambivalence: was the midwife a figure of shame or pride? How did one distance oneself from what was now considered superstitious or backward and at the same time acknowledge and show pride in the former unquestioned authority of these beliefs and practices? In an important contribution to African American studies and anthropology, African American Midwifery in the South brings new voices to the discourse on the hidden world of midwives and birthing.

Fundamentals of Midwifery

Author : Louise Lewis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118528026
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Midwifery written by Louise Lewis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Midwifery: A Textbook for Students makes the subject of midwifery accessible, informative and motivating, ensuring that it is an essential text for the aspiring midwife! This resource brings together knowledge from a collection of clinical experts and experienced academics to support your learning and prepare you for the challenges faced in contemporary midwifery healthcare. It presents you with the ‘must-have’ information that you need concerning both the theoretical and practical aspects of what it means to be a midwife. With extensive full colour illustrations throughout, as well as activities and scenarios, this user-friendly textbook will support you throughout your entire education programme. Fundamentals of Midwifery is essential reading for all pre-registration student midwives, as well as newly qualified midwives. KEY FEATURES: • Broad and comprehensive in scope, with chapters on: team working; antenatal care, intrapartum and postnatal care; infant feeding; public health and health promotion; perinatal mental health; complementary therapies; pharmacology and medicines management; and emergencies. • Interactive and student-friendly in approach, with activities throughout. • Brings together professional and clinical topics in one user-friendly book. • Ties in with the latest NMC Standards for pre-registration midwifery education. • Supported by an online resource centre featuring interactive multiple-choice questions, additional scenarios and activities, and links to further reading.

Sociology and Health Care

Author : Michael Sheaff
Publisher : Tata McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 13 : 9780071067652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Sociology and Health Care written by Michael Sheaff and published by Tata McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it relevant to think of patients as customers or consumers? Do people who are better off get better access to health care, irrespective of the severity of their condition? Why is technical knowledge often given higher status than knowledge based on our own experiences? These questions and more are addressed by this book.

Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice

Author : Patricia Lindsay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317744055
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice written by Patricia Lindsay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery practice and women’s experience of birth. Demonstrating how empathising with women and understanding the context in which they live can affect childbirth outcomes and experiences, this evidence-based text emphasises the importance of compassionate and humane care in midwifery practice. Exploring midwifery as an art, as well as a science, the authors collected here make the case for midwives as professionals working ‘with women’ rather than as birth technicians, taking a purely competency-based approach to practice. The book incorporates a range of pedagogical features to enhance student learning, including overall chapter aims and learning outcomes, ‘recommendations for practice’, ‘learning triggers’ to encourage the reader to delve deeper and reflect on practice, ‘application to practice’ case studies which ensure that the theory is related to contemporary practice, and a glossary of terms. The chapters cover perspectives on birth from sociology; psychology; anthropology; law; social policy and politics. Other chapters address important issues such as disability, politics and sexuality. Outlining relevant theory from the social sciences and clearly applying it to practice, this text is an essential read for all student midwives, registered midwives and doulas.

The Sociology of Health and Illness

Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429205580
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Health and Illness written by Peter Conrad and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text that brings a critical and conceptual sociological orientation to bear on the issues underlying the current health care crisis and on proposed changes in the health system.

Midwifery in China

Author : Ngai Fen Cheung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351124501
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Midwifery in China written by Ngai Fen Cheung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to present the history, ideas, life and works of Chinese midwives and birth attendants, this volume seeks to encapsulate and explain the changing ideas about the practice of midwifery in China. Using participant observations and interviews, it examines each phase of the development of midwifery in depth. Providing a systematic study of the existing literature and contemporary national health policies, it analyses the factors contributing to the current demise of midwifery in China, such as the absence of national regulation, high standards of education and national midwives’ associations. Furthermore, it argues that China’s national statistics in the past six decades demonstrate clear evidence that minimising maternal mortality rates will only happen through wider availability of services, rather than through obstetric technology or facility based care. Ultimately, therefore this book supports the view that humanity and midwifery will survive to overcome domination by both technology and market forces and that economic growth and medical technology alone will not be sufficient in providing effective healthcare. This book is an indispensable resource for the study of Chinese midwifery, both in theory and in practice. As such it will be useful to students and scholars of Midwifery, Women’s Health, Sociology and culture and society in China.