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Towards the Humanisation of Birth

Author : Elizabeth Newnham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319699628
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Towards the Humanisation of Birth written by Elizabeth Newnham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth. It describes historical and cultural trajectories that have shaped the way in which birth is understood in Western, developed nations. In setting out the nature of epidural history, knowledge and practice, the book delves into related birth practices within the hospital setting. By critically examining these practices, which are embedded in a scientific discourse that rationalises and relies upon technology use, the authors argue that epidural analgesia has been positioned as a safe technology in contemporary maternity culture, despite it carrying particular risks. In examining alternative research the book proposes that increasing epidural rates are not only due to greater pain relief requirements or access but are influenced by technocratic values and a fragmented maternity system. The authors outline the way in which this epidural discourse influences how information is presented to women and how this affects their choices around the use of pain relief in labour.

Putting Birth Back in Women's Hands

Author : Deborah Meacham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Putting Birth Back in Women's Hands written by Deborah Meacham and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier

Author : Betty-Anne Daviss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000335534
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier written by Betty-Anne Daviss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the politics of global health and social justice issues around birth, focusing on dynamic communities that have chosen to speak truth to power by reforming dysfunctional health care systems or creating new ones outside the box. The chapters present models of childbirth at extreme ends of a spectrum—from the conflict zones and disaster areas of Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and Indonesia, to high-risk tertiary care settings in China, Canada, Australia, and Turkey. Debunking notions about best care, the volume illustrates how human rights in health care are on a collision course with global capitalism and offers a number of specific solutions to this ever-increasing problem. This volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in anthropology, sociology, health, and midwifery, as well as for practitioners, policy makers, and organizations focused on birth or on social activism in any arena.

Birthing Outside the System

Author : Hannah G. Dahlen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367506605
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Birthing Outside the System written by Hannah G. Dahlen and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates why women choose 'birth outside the system' and makes connections between women's right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems. Choosing to birth at home can force women out of mainstream maternity care, despite research supporting the safety of this option for low-risk women attended by midwives. When homebirth is not supported as a birthplace option, women will defy mainstream medical advice, and if a midwife is not available, choose either an unregulated careprovider or birth without assistance. This book examines the circumstances and drivers behind why women nevertheless choose homebirth by bringing legal and ethical perspectives together with the latest research on high-risk homebirth (breech and twin births), freebirth, birth with unregulated careproviders and the oppression of midwives who support unorthodox choices. Stories from women who have pursued alternatives in Australia, Europe, Russia, the UK, the US, Canada, the Middle East and India are woven through the research. Insight and practical strategies are shared by doctors, midwives, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists on how to manage the tension between professional obligations and women's right to bodily autonomy. This book, the first of its kind, is an important contribution to considerations of place of birth and human rights in childbirth.

Gentle Birth Choices

Author : Barbara Harper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594778639
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Gentle Birth Choices written by Barbara Harper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birth as every woman would like it to be • Recommended by Lamaze International as one of the top ten books for pregnant women and their families • Includes a 45-minute DVD of six live gentle births • More than 32,000 copies sold of the original edition New parents are faced with a myriad of choices about pregnancy, labor, and birth. In Gentle Birth Choices Barbara Harper, renowned childbirth advocate, nurse, former midwife, and mother of three, helps to clarify these choices and shows how to plan a meaningful, family-centered birth experience. She dispels medical myths and reimagines birth without fear, pain, or violence. Harper explains the numerous gentle birth choices available, including giving birth in an independent birth center, at home, or in a hospital birthing room; finding a primary caregiver who shares your philosophy of birth; and deciding how to best use current technologies. She also provides practical advice for couples wishing to explore the option of using a doula or water during labor and birth to avoid the unwanted effects of drugs and epidurals. The Gentle Birth Choices DVD blends interviews with midwives and physicians and six actual births that illustrate the options of water birth, home birth, and vaginal birth after a prior Cesarean section. The DVD clearly reveals the strength of women during childbirth and the healthy and happy outcome of women exercising gentle birth choices. It is a powerful instructional tool, not only for expectant parents, but also for midwives, hospitals, birth centers, and doctors.

A Social Work Contribution to the Humanization of Birth

Author : Janna J. Bowey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book A Social Work Contribution to the Humanization of Birth written by Janna J. Bowey and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Birthing Work

Author : Katharine McKinnon
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981150010X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Birthing Work written by Katharine McKinnon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the assemblage that comes into being in the spaces and experiences of childbirth. Charting the contributions of the multiple human and non-human actors that contribute to the birth experience, it offers a new perspective on childbirth that cuts across the often emotional debates about natural versus medicalised birth. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with mothers, midwives and obstetricians, it provides an insight into the collective endeavours that shape birth. In doing so, it also explores who does the work of childbirth, expanding the boundaries for who (and what) is responsible for this collective labour and highlighting the interdependencies that characterise it. Structured around eight chapters that each focus on a different actor in the birth space, the volume argues that pregnancy and childbearing brings us into new relationships: with ourselves, with the child to be born, our partners and families, those who care for us, and with more-than-human others.

Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health

Author : Lauren J. Wallace
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030845141
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health written by Lauren J. Wallace and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors – both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices – demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a lens through which to generate rich insights into professionals’ and lay people’s intimate encounters with policy. Authors look closely at core policy debates in the history of global maternal health across six different continents, including: Women’s use of misoprostol for abortion in Burkina Faso The place of traditional birth attendants in global maternal health Donor-driven maternal health programs in Tanzania Efforts to integrate qualitative evidence in WHO maternal and child health policy-making Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health will engage readers interested in critical conversations about global health policy today. The broad range of foci makes it a valuable resource for teaching in medical anthropology, anthropology of reproduction, and interdisciplinary global health programs. The book will also find readership amongst critical public health scholars, health policy and systems researchers, and global public health practitioners.

Spirituality and Childbirth

Author : Susan Crowther
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315389622
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Spirituality and Childbirth written by Susan Crowther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting aspects of birth often taken for granted, ignored or left silenced, this book questions the art and meaning of childbirth. Addressing spirituality in and around the start of life from a variety of thought-provoking perspectives, it examines the apparent paradox of impersonal biomedical-technocratic systems operating alongside the meaningful experiences encountered by those involved. Themes covered include: Notions of holism and spirituality, culture, religion and spirituality Childbirth significance at societal level Spiritual care in maternity care provision Birth environment, mood, space and place Spiritual experience of all those involved, including health professionals Spiritual experience when birth is complex and challenging When birth and death are juxtaposed. Although there is considerable literature on spirituality at the end of life, this is the only book that draws together a global and multidisciplinary selection of academic researchers and practitioners to reflect on spirituality at the start of life. Each chapter explores the relevant theoretical background and makes links to practice, using case studies from research and practice. The chapters conclude by discussing: how spiritual care is, and should be, provided in this context; what practice approaches are beneficial; cross-cultural perspectives; and future directions for research. It is an important read for all those interested in childbirth, maternity care, social science perspectives on health and illness, and spirituality.

Natural Birth

Author : Kristina Turner
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 1782501142
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Natural Birth written by Kristina Turner and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our society childbirth is often viewed as something to be feared and even to be avoided, through elective caesarian or extreme pain suppression. In this uplifting book Kristina Turner applies esoteric knowledge to show practical ways of transforming a difficult experience into a positive and deeply spiritual one. Kristina looks closely at the physical processes that take place in the body during pregnancy and childbirth, as well at explaining the facts behind hospital procedures and options for home birth -- providing readers with the necessary knowledge to make their own choices. She feels that birthing should be viewed as a unified process, from the nine months of pregnancy through labour to the many months of breastfeeding; all three stages contribute to developing the bond between mother and child and the child's emotional function. Kristina writes beautifully about the sacred mystery inherent in conception and pregnancy, and guides the new mother towards being a conscious participant in the spiritual process of bringing life into this world. This book is both very practical and hugely inspiring.

Natural Science of Childbirth

Author : Margaret Jowitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780662503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Natural Science of Childbirth written by Margaret Jowitt and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading childbirth activist and campaigner Margaret Jowitt's new book explores the biological science of pregnancy and childbirth - as opposed to the clinical science of medicalised childbirth.The book addresses many aspects of the birth experience, from the specifically human difficulties giving birth that arise from our bodies being made for upright walking, to the effects on our psychology of the hormones of stress, pregnancy and childbirth.The book considers both the physical and psychological effects of birth, and the biomechanics that can be employed to make birth easier. The concluding chapters offer a model for creating the optimum physical and psychosocial environment for birth.Authoritatively written, thoroughly researched and illustrated in detail, this is crucial reading for student midwives, NCT teachers, childbirth educators and women preparing for childbirth.

Home Birth

Author : Alice Gilgoff
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Home Birth written by Alice Gilgoff and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilgoff's acclaimed book has been completely revised, with the personal stories, historical perspective, practical advice, and warm style of the first edition updated to meet the challenges of the 90's. Through careful review of current research and personal accounts, this competent and reassuring book covers all the issues: the advantages and disadvantages of home birth and the circumstances that make hospital birth advisable; the most commonly used methods of natural childbirth; the use of drugs, episiotomy, surgical intervention; breastfeeding upon demand, and family participation; how to arrange for a home birth attendant, how to prepare the house and family, and how to plan a contingency trip to a hospital. This [book] is a friendly, gently persuasive invitation to look at the benefits of home birth, now seen from [Gilgoff's] vantage point of a decade-plus of experience. Sue LaLeike, CCE Now that home birth has established itself as a viable alternative to hospital birth, Alice Gilgoff's acclaimed book has been completely revised, with the personal stories, historical perspective, practical advice, and warm style of the first edition updated to meet the challenges of the 90's. Through careful review of current research and personal accounts this competent and reassuring book covers all the issues: the advantages and disadvantages of home birth and the circumstances that make hospital birth advisable; the most commonly used methods of natural childbirth; the use of drugs, episiotomy, surgical intervention; breastfeeding upon demand, and family participation; how to arrange for a home birth attendant, how to prepare the house and family, and how to plan a contingency trip to a hospital; the services offered by organizations promoting home delivery; siblings at birth; pros and cons of amniocentesis, vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), postpartum depression, medical malpractice suits, and more.

Labor Pains and Birth Stories

Author : Jessica Lynn Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980208115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Labor Pains and Birth Stories written by Jessica Lynn Powers and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of men and women in the world have given birth or supported their partners through that beautiful and terrifying experience. Giving birth is a time when one's best dreams and ideas--and worst fears and nightmares--coalesce into a single moment of anticipation. Out of such moments come stories that reach into the deepest place of what it means to be human, what it means to be a spiritual being, what it means to love and be loved. Labor Pains and Birth Stories is a collection of stories written by ordinary men and women about the transformation, joy, hilarity and pain of childbirth.

Homebirth in the Hospital

Author : Stacey Marie Kerr
Publisher : Sentient Publications
ISBN 13 : 1591810779
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Homebirth in the Hospital written by Stacey Marie Kerr and published by Sentient Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a physician, this book embraces the power and possibility of integrative childbirth, in which the compassionate tradition of midwives is combined with the technical expertise of western medicine. --from publisher description.

Organisations and Humanisation

Author : Myrte van de Klundert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317085124
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Organisations and Humanisation written by Myrte van de Klundert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term humanisation was introduced in humanistic studies to develop a humanist way of thinking about organisations and human relations. It stems from a need to think about questions of justice and living a good life in practice but not from some absolute or abstract point of view. As it is often framed, humanisation is concerned with working towards a more human type of organisation. Organisation studies are concerned with understanding organisations and their role in our society, and developing perspectives and methods to improve them, while humanisation theories, on the other hand, do not represent a managerial blueprint as they tend to incorporate notions of situated knowledge, sense-making and relational value, drawing our attention to specific processes rather than offering universal truths. Although Critical Management Studies counters mainstream managerialism, it still tends to produce the same kind of ‘truths’ that are supposed to apply to all organisations. Much of the existing management literature is related to control and offers strategies on how to do things but this is not about prescriptions, rather how to explore possibilities from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It offers managers as well as theoreticians of organisations the possibility to question their grounding principles. In the variety of contributions to this book the authors reflect on their understanding of what it is to be human and whether this can be found in the way that organisations are run. They consider the value of humanisation to understand and intervene in organisations and the challenges they face.

How to Be Human

Author : Paula Cocozza
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250129257
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book How to Be Human written by Paula Cocozza and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On leave from work, unsettled by the proximity of her ex, and struggling with her hostile neighbors, Mary has become increasingly captivated by a magnificent fox who is always in her garden. First she sees him wink at her, then he brings her presents, and finally she invites him into her house. As the boundaries between the domestic and the wild blur, and the neighbors set out to exterminate the fox, it is unclear if Mary will save the fox, or the fox save Mary"--

Birth Trauma and the Dark Side of Modern Medicine

Author : Jeanice Barcelo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781798975176
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Birth Trauma and the Dark Side of Modern Medicine written by Jeanice Barcelo and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Birth Trauma and the Dark Side of Modern Medicine" offers a critical analysis of technological interventions during childbirth and the abuse of mothers and infants during hospital birth. The book contains a mixture of personal commentary, combined with many stories of severe birth trauma and extensive citation of research to affirm that what is happening during hospital birth is detrimental to mothers, infants, families, and our entire civilization. The book covers a wide array of topics including postpartum depression and post-traumatic stress, marital breakdown after childbirth, disrupted mother-infant bonding, birth rape, circumcision, induction, cytotec, pitocin, epidural, cesarean section, abuse in neonatal intensive care units, vaccines, the dark side of artificial reproductive technologies, and much more. Additionally, there is pertinent information about prenatal trauma and the impact of the first nine months on the rest of our lives. This book is an intense read but the revelations are important. It deserves to be widely read. For more information, please visit www.BirthofaNewEarth.com