Birthing Autonomy
Women's Experiences of Planning Home Births
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 21 July 2005
- ISBN 9780415354097
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An in-depth exploration of how women make decisions about home births and what aspects matter most to them.
MoreLong description:
Birthing Autonomy brings some balance to the difficult arguments that arise from debates about home births, and focuses on women?s views and their experiences of planning home births. It provides an in-depth exploration of how women make decisions about home births and what aspects matter most to them. Comparing how differently the pros and cons of home births are constructed and contemplated by mothers and by the medical profession, the book looks at how current obstetric thinking and practices can disempower and harm women emotionally and spiritually as well as physically.
Written in an accessible style, this book is enlightening for student and practicing midwives and obstetricians, as well as researchers and students of nursing, medical sociology, health studies, gender studies, feminist practitioners and theorists. It will also be invaluable to expectant mothers who want to be more informed about the choices they are facing and the wider context within which their birth options are considered.
'If you've felt disempowered by the birthing profession in your choice to home birth, you'll no doubt find a great ally in this book' - The Mother More
Table of Contents:
1. Home birth? What's the problem 2. What do we know? What does she know? Can anyone know anything? 3. How have we got here? Historical and current perspectives 4. What's safe and what's risky? 5. 'What I really need is support': Relationships between women and midwives 6. 'They think it's best': The ethical implications of obstetrics 7. Where now?
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