Birthing methods books

132 books were found.

Men and Maternity

Men and Maternity

Author: Rosemary Mander
ISBN: 9780415275873
Format: Paperback
$81.00

This book argues that the beneficial contribution of men has been taken for granted. Certain changes to childbearing...  Read More >>

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Author: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
ISBN: 9780520229327
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This study examines why, despite the growing strength of the natural childbirth movement, women increasingly opt...  Read More >>

Active Management of Labour

Active Management of Labour

Author: K. O'Driscoll, MD ,  D. Meagher
ISBN: 9780723432029
Format: Paperback
$94.00

Presents an approach to the management of labour. Based on the proposition that effective uterine action is the...  Read More >>

Childbirth in the Global Village: Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice

Childbirth in the Global Village: Implications for Midwifery...

Author: Dawn Hillier
ISBN: 9780415275514
Format: Hardback
$266.00

Childbirth in the Global Village highlights and examines the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth...  Read More >>

Childbirth in the Global Village: Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice

Childbirth in the Global Village: Implications for Midwifery...

Author: Dawn Hillier
ISBN: 9780415275521
Format: Paperback
$87.00

Childbirth in the Global Village highlights and examines the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth...  Read More >>

Choosing Waterbirth: Reclaiming the Sacred Power of Birth

Choosing Waterbirth: Reclaiming the Sacred Power of...

Author: Lakshmi Bertram
ISBN: 9781571741523
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This complete manual and support guide for the entire process of childbearing includes sections on empowerment,...  Read More >>

Every Pregnant Woman

Every Pregnant Woman

Author: Barbara Luke, SC.D., M.P.H., R.D.
ISBN: 9780595238545
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing

AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing

Author: Kathleen Simpson ,  Patricia Creehan
ISBN: 9780781725101
Format: Paperback
$129.23

Features a family-centered approach to perinatal nursing and examines the care and needs of childbearing women and...  Read More >>

Risk, Age and Pregnancy: A Case Study of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing

Risk, Age and Pregnancy: A Case Study of Prenatal Genetic...

Author: B. Heyman ,  M. Henriksen
ISBN: 9780333739402
Format: Hardback
$84.99

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Pain Management in Childbearing: Key Issues in Management

Pain Management in Childbearing: Key Issues in Management...

Author: Margaret Yerby (Senior Lecturer (Midwifery), Wolfson Institute of Health Sciences, Thames Valley University, London, UK)
ISBN: 9780702022999
Format: Paperback
$129.23

This book provides a review of the aspects of pain associated with childbearing. Key topics include: the physiology...  Read More >>

Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

Author: Amanda Carson Banks
ISBN: 9781578061723
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

Author: Amanda Carson Banks
ISBN: 9781578061716
Format: Hardback
$132.00

A study of how birthing methods have evolved and how key practices have returned  Read More >>

Birth Alternatives: How Women Select Childbirth Care

Birth Alternatives: How Women Select Childbirth Care...

Author: Sandra Howell-White
ISBN: 9780313299520
Format: Hardback
$110.00

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A Safe Deliverance: Childbirth in Seventeenth-century England

A Safe Deliverance: Childbirth in Seventeenth-century...

Author: Adrian Wilson
ISBN: 9781857286250
Format: Hardback
$112.00

This work brings the author's analysis of childbirth forward into the 17th century. Together with The Making of...  Read More >>

Labor and Delivery: The Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Labor and Delivery, May 1997, Rome, Italy

Labor and Delivery: The Proceedings of the 2nd World...

Author: E.V. Cosmi ,  E.V. Cosmi
ISBN: 9781850709732
Format: Hardback
$527.87

This clinical reference work on labour and delivery features chapters on endocrinology, management, preterm labour,...  Read More >>

Pain Relief in Labour

Pain Relief in Labour

Author: Felicity Reynolds ,  Robin Russell
ISBN: 9780727910097
Format: Paperback
$149.95

Covering both the pharmacological and the more controversial non-pharmacological management of pain relief, this...  Read More >>

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural...

Author: Robbie E. Davis-Floyd ,  Carolyn Fishel Sargent
ISBN: 9780520207851
Format: Paperback
$60.95

This collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth focuses on research conducted by anthropologists...  Read More >>

Management of Labor and Delivery

Management of Labor and Delivery

Author: Robert K. Creasy
ISBN: 9780865424166
Format: Hardback
$641.39

Addresses the management of birth process. This title offers a review on this event. It addresses topics such as:...  Read More >>

Episiotomy: Challenging Obstetric Interventions

Episiotomy: Challenging Obstetric Interventions

Author: Ian D. Graham
ISBN: 9780632041459
Format: Paperback
$182.13

This work focuses on the process of change in the use of a controversial procedure by tracing the evolution of the...  Read More >>

Waterbirth Unplugged: International Perspectives of Waterbirth

Waterbirth Unplugged: International Perspectives of...

Author: Beverley Lawrence Beech (Chair of the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services)
ISBN: 9781898507536
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Covering various aspects of waterbirth, this work looks at how waterbirth practices differ around the world. It...  Read More >>

History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern Europe

History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth...

Author: Jacques Gelis (University of Paris VIII)
ISBN: 9780745618401
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first full-length study of the complex system of practices,...  Read More >>

Water Birth: A Midwife's Perspective

Water Birth: A Midwife's Perspective

Author: Susana Napierala
ISBN: 9780897892858
Format: Paperback
$48.00

As women increasingly seek more humanistic birthing methods than the hospital-based delivery, certified midwife...  Read More >>

Rebounding from Childbirth: Toward Emotional Recovery

Rebounding from Childbirth: Toward Emotional Recovery...

Author: Lynn Madsen
ISBN: 9780897893480
Format: Paperback
$48.00

Without true healing, Madsen's analysis reveals, a new mother's suppressed sense of loss and pain can affect her...  Read More >>

Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950

Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950

Author: Judith Walzer Leavitt (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Women's Studies, Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9780195056907
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth...  Read More >>

Unassisted Childbirth

Unassisted Childbirth

Author: Laura Kaplan Shanley
ISBN: 9780897893770
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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