Overview

Greatly expanded revised and updated with an entirely new chapter on disability The Social Context of Birth Second Edition provides an essential understanding of how social issues affect midwives the birth process and motherhood. Childbirth is much more than a biological event or a set of case notes. No-one has an uneventful pregnancy and women seek narratives through which they can explain and try to make sense of what has happened to them. This is often neglected in the relentlessly technocratic modern culture of childbirth. Appreciating the social context surrounding an individual enriches the understanding a midwife must have if she is to work successfully alongside a woman and her family throughout a pregnancy and birth in an insightful intelligent and informed manner. This comprehensive guide provides countless valuable insights for midwives nurses obstetricians and health visitors into the many different lives experiences and expectations of women in their childbearing years their babies and families in the 21st Century. Written by a team of highly experienced health professionals it also covers contentious areas of maternity care such as new reproductive technologies and fetal surveillance.

Full Product Details

Author:   Caroline Squire ,  Caroline Squire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Edition:   1st New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9781846192531

ISBN 10:   1846192536
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   25 March 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Women, society and the midwife. Women and sex. Women and poverty. The family. `Race' and ethnicity. Refugee women. Domestic abuse. Female genital mutilation. Transition to motherhood. Maternal infant attachment. The medicalisation of childbirth. Social support and childbirth. Fathers and childbirth. Unhappiness after childbirth. Disability and childbirth. Childbirth and the experience of sexual abuse during childhood. Assisted conception: threat or opportunity? Fetal surveillance. Breastfeeding: a natural phenomenon or a cultural construct?

Reviews

I was pleasantly surprised by the breadth of the 19 readable and well-referenced selection of articles that Caroline Squire has put together in this second edition of The social context of birth. - an excellent first reading in social theory and childbirth. From Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood International

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Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, Thames Valley University, London

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