Overview

Current maternity policy advocates choice and control for women in maternity care and promotes women as active childbirth consumers and decision-makers. However evidence that women receive true choice within contemporary maternity services is lacking and continued and pervasive barriers to choice continue to have profound consequences for many. Choice Control and Contemporary Childbirth explores the narrative childbirth experiences of a group of women outlining current policy and providing an overview of the relevant discourses to which women are exposed when making choices for maternity care. This book is unique in presenting narratives that reveal varying identities for women across their maternity exerience illustrating how maternity choices are simulataneously promised and constrained. It provides practitioners service providers and policymakers in maternity care and all those with an interest in birth provision with profound insights into both women's experiences of childbirth and how choices can be better facilitated in future.

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Author:   Julie Jomeen ,  Lura L. Pethtel
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Edition:   1st New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9781846192371

ISBN 10:   1846192374
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   25 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship, University of Hull, UK

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