Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe,9780415923385

Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415923385
ISBN10: 0415923387
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2001-02-02
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This collection of essays contains leading research in maternity care from Europe, the United States and Canada to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth.Birth By Designfocuses on the practical side of 'good' social science research. This is a ground-breaking work that looks not only at maternity, but also the act of childbirth.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Introduction: Why Maternity Care Is Not Medical Care xi
Part I: The Politics of Maternity Care
Introduction to Part I
3(4)
Sirpa Wrede
Where to Give Birth? Politics and the Place of Birth
7(21)
Eugene Declercq
Raymond DeVries
Kirsi Viisainen
Helga B. Salvesen
Sirpa Wrede
The State and Birth/The State of Birth: Maternal Health Policy in Three Countries
28(23)
Sirpa Wrede
Cecilia Benoit
Jane Sandall
Changing Birth: Interest Groups and Maternity Care Policy
51(19)
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Eugene Declercq
Jane Sandall
Reforming Birth and (Re) making Midwifery in North America
70(17)
Betty-Anne Daviss
Looking Within: Race, Class, and Birth
87(30)
Margaret K. Nelson
Rebecca Popenoe
Part II: Providing Care
Introduction to Part II
115(2)
Edwin R. van Teijlingen
Deciding Who Cares: Winners and Losers in the Late Twentieth Century
117(22)
Jane Sandall
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Wouter J. Meijer
Beate A. Schuecking
Designing Midwives: A Comparison of Educational Models
139(27)
Cecilia Benoit
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Edwin R. van Teijlingen
Jane Sandall
Janneli F. Miller
Telling Stories of Midwives
166(14)
Leonie van der Hulst
Edwin R. van Teijlingen
Betty-Anne Daviss
Myriam Haagmans-Cortenraad
Annie Heuts-Verstraten
Jillian Ireland
Marike Roos-Ploeger
Spoiling the Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis in the Netherlands
180(23)
Barbara Katz Rothman
Part III: Society, Technology, and Practice
Introduction to Part III
201(2)
Cecilia Benoit
Maternity Care Policies and Maternity Care Practices: A Tale of Two Germanys
203(15)
Susan L. Erikson
Constructing Risk: Maternity Care, Law, and Malpractice
218(11)
Elizabeth Cartwright
Jan Thomas
Obstetrical Trajectories: On Training Women/Bodies for (Home) Birth
229(14)
Bernike Pasveer
Madeleine Akrich
What (and Why) Do Women Want? The Desires of Women and the Design of Maternity Care
243(24)
Raymond DeVries
Helga B. Salvesen
Therese A. Wiegers
A. Susan Williams
Appendix: The Politics of Numbers: The Promise and Frustration of Cross-National Analysis 267(13)
Eugene Declerq
Kirsi Viisainen
Contributors 280(5)
Index 285

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