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Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth: Comparative Perspectives
Author(s) -
Edwin Roland Van Teijlingen,
G. W. Lowis,
P. G. McCaffery,
Maureen Porter
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of midwifery and women's health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.543
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1542-2011
pISSN - 1526-9523
DOI - 10.1111/j.1542-2011.2003.tb04368.x
Subject(s) - medicalization , childbirth , citation , obstetrics , sociology , medicine , political science , law , pregnancy , genetics , psychiatry , biology
PARTIAL CONTENTS: Preface Acknowledgments About the Editors General Introduction (Van Teijlingen el al.) Sociological Factors Affecting the Medicalisation of Midwifery (Lowis & McCafffery) Part One: Toward Sociology Of Midwifery Part Two: Medicalisation Of Childbirth And Midwifery Introduction: History of Midwifery (Van Teijlingen) Midwives & maternity care in the Roman world (French) Early Modern Midwifery A Case Study (Weisner) Louyse Bourgeois and the Emergence of Modern Midwifery (Kalisch el al.) Is Childbirth any Place for a Woman? The Decline of Midwifery in Eighteenth-Century England (Schnorrenberg) Perrette The Midwife... (Forbes) The Decline of The Midwife (Donnison) 'The Different Stages of the Elimination of Midwives in Quebec' (Laforce) 'Midwife Regulation, Education, & Practice in the Netherlands'... (Van Lieburg & Marland) Midwifery in Contemporary Western Societies (Porter) Models of Midwifery Care... (McKay) Maternity Home Care Assistants in the Netherlands (Van Teijlingen) The Role and Responsibilities of the Midwife in Scotland (Askham & Barbour) Domino Delivery... (Beck) Changing Childbirth? (Porter) An exception to the Canadian Case: Autonomous Midwifery at the Margins (Benoit) Medical Models and Midwifery: The Cultural Experience of Birth (Lichtman) Index.