Sustainability, midwifery and birth / edited by Lorna Davies, Rea Daellenbach and Mary Kensington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Lorna, editor.

Daellenbach, Rea, editor.

Kensington, Mary, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midwifery.

Midwifery--Government policy.

Physical Description:

318 p.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2021]

Summary:

This new edition outlines how sustainability can be incorporated into midwifery practice, education and research. It has been thoroughly revised to include new models of sustainable midwifery practice and new chapters on rural midwives and rural communities, social justice, and compassion.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Prologue

Foreword

Introduction

PART I: The politics of midwifery and sustainability

1. Globalisation, midwifery and maternity services: Struggles in meaning and practice in states under pressure

2. Costing birth as commodity or sustainable public good

3. Social justice, motherhood and midwives

4. Valuing the labour of midwives in Ontario, Canada and New Zealand

PART II: Midwifery as a sustainable healthcare practice

5. The midwife as social connector

6. Sustained by joy: The potential of flow experience for midwives and mothers and the blocking of that flow

7. Sustained by compassion

8. Career or life cycle: The phenomenon of transitioning worksetting within midwifery in order to remain personally and professionally sustainable

9. Sustaining rural midwives and rural communities

10. Good housekeeping in sustainable midwifery practice

11. A values-based approach to sustainability literacy in a Bachelor of Midwifery programme

PART III: Supporting sustainable parenting

12. The pregnant environment

13. The birthing environment: A sustainable approach

14. Antenatal education: Sustaining healthy families

15. Climate action and infant feeding

16. 'Good mothers' in the age of finance

Epilogue: Planet and Placenta: A Cycle of Seasonal Correspondence Between Two Old Friends

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-29055-1

1-000-09124-4

9780429290558

OCLC:

1164492181