A Pleasing Birth : Midwives And Maternity Care

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Vries, Raymond.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maternal Health Services.

Midwifery.

Home Childbirth.

Netherlands.

Medical Subjects:

Maternal Health Services.

Midwifery.

Home Childbirth.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women have long searched for a pleasing birth-a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: every other modern nation regards birth as too risky to occur outside a hospital setting. In exp

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Birth Care/Health Care; 1. Dutch Birth and the Shape of Health Care; 2. Uniek, Bewonderd, en Verguisd (Unique, Admired, and Reviled); II. Forms; 3. Structuring Care; 4. The Politics of Care; III. Forming; 5. Doe Maar Gewoon (Just Act Normally): Dutch Culture/Dutch Birth; 6. Two Sciences or No Science? Obstetric Research in the Netherlands; IV. Re-Forming; 7. Is All This Suffering Still Necessary? Pressure to Change the Dutch Way of Birth; 8. Re-Forming Health Care: Culture and Health Policy; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613531735

9781280127854

1280127856

9781439907009

1439907005

OCLC:

775872754