| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 301 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction: why maternity care is not medical care -- pt. I. The politics of maternity care -- Where to give birth? Politics and the place of birth -- The state and birth/The state of birth: maternal health policy in three countries -- Changing birth : interest groups and maternal care policy -- Reforming birth and (re)making midwifery in North America -- Looking within : race, class, and birth -- pt. II. Providing care -- Deciding who cares : winners and losers in the late twentieth century -- Designing midwives : a comparison of educational models -- Telling stories of midwives -- Spoiling the pregnancy : prenatal diagnosis in the Netherlands -- pt. III. Society, technology, and practice -- Maternity care policies and maternity care practices : a tale of two Germanys -- Constructing risk : maternity care, law, and malpractice -- Obstetrical trajectories : on trading women/bodies for (home) birth -- What (and why) do women want? The desires of women and the design of maternity care. |
| Summary |
This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the US, Canada, and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. A groundbreaking work which gives a truly international understanding. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Maternal health services -- North America.
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Maternal health services -- Europe.
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Maternal Health Services.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Midwifery.
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Europe.
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North America.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pregnancy & Childbirth.
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Maternal health services. (OCoLC)fst01011995
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
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| Added Author |
De Vries, Raymond G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Birth by design. New York ; London : Routledge, 2001 0415923379 (DLC) 00055327 (OCoLC)44613010 |
| ISBN |
0585452075 (electronic book) |
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9780585452074 (electronic book) |
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0203902408 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203902400 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0415923379 (cloth) |
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0415923387 (paperback) |
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9780415923378 |
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0415923379 |
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1280407220 |
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9781280407222 |
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