Birth by design : pregnancy, maternity care, and midwifery in North America and Europe / edited by Raymond De Vries ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Vries, Raymond G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maternal health services--North America.

Maternal health services.

Maternal health services--Europe.

Europe.

North America.

Physical Description:

xviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

Birth is a universal experience, yet the way birth is treated is by no means universal. In the United States, for example, almost all births occur in a hospital under the supervision of a doctor, while in the Netherlands thirty percent of births occur at home and midwives attend nearly half of all deliveries. Birth by Design is the first truly comparative and multidisciplinary study of maternity care and birth practices by leading experts in maternity care from the United States, Canada, and Europe. The authors explore the tangled histories of midwifery and obstetrics, the role of the state and of social movements in care at birth, the rise of managed care, and the impact of new perinatal technologies. Birth by Design offers a groundbreaking, cross-cultural understanding of maternity care and childbirth.

Contents:

Introduction: Why Maternity Care Is Not Medical Care xi

Part I The Politics of Maternity Care

1. Where to Give Birth? Politics and the Place of Birth / Eugene Declercq, Raymond DeVries, Kirsi Viisainen, Helga B. Salvesen, Sirpa Wrede 7

2. The State and Birth/The State of Birth: Maternal Health Policy in Three Countries / Sirpa Wrede, Cecilia Benoit, Jane Sandall 28

3. Changing Birth: Interest Groups and Maternity Care Policy / Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Eugene Declercq, Jane Sandall 51

4. Reforming Birth and (Re)making Midwifery in North America / Betty-Anne Daviss 70

5. Looking Within: Race, Class, and Birth / Margaret K. Nelson, Rebecca Popenoe 87

Part II Providing Care

6. Deciding Who Cares: Winners and Losers in the Late Twentieth Century / Jane Sandall, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Wouter J. Meijer, Beate A. Schuecking 117

7. Designing Midwives: A Comparison of Educational Models / Cecilia Benoit, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Edwin R. van Teijlingen, Jane Sandall, Janneli F. Miller 139

8. Telling Stories of Midwives / Leonie van der Hulst, Edwin R. van Teijlingen, Betty-Anne Daviss, Myriam Haagmans-Cortenraad, Annie Heuts-Verstraten, Jillian Ireland, Marike Roos-Ploeger 166

9. Spoiling the Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis in the Netherlands / Barbara Katz Rothman 180

Part III Society, Technology, and Practice

10. Maternity Care Policies and Maternity Care Practices: A Tale of Two Germanys / Susan L. Erikson 203

11. Constructing Risk: Maternity Care, Law, and Malpractice / Elizabeth Cartwright, Jan Thomas 218

12. Obstetrical Trajectories: On Training Women/Bodies for (Home) Birth / Bernike Pasveer, Madeleine Akrich 229

13. What (and Why) Do Women Want? The Desires of Women and the Design of Maternity Care / Raymond DeVries, Helga B. Salvesen, Therese A. Wiegers, A. Susan Williams 243

Appendix The Politics of Numbers: The Promise and Frustration of Cross-National Analysis / Eugene Declerq, Kirsi Viisainen 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415923379

0415923387

OCLC:

44613010