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Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A stimulating and thought-provoking analysis of the issues faced in the real world of midwifery and maternity care! Rosemary Mander discusses the context of contemporary childbearing and analyses a range of political in the broadest sense issues which need to be understood and addressed by those practising in a system of public maternity care, particularly the new midwife. Designed to help professionals cope with the transition from education and...
Author
Publisher
Springer Publishing Company, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This graduate-level nursing text and professional clinical reference is the first to comprehensively address the escalating crisis in U.S. maternal health our country experiences the highest maternal mortality among developed nations and provides strategies and roadmaps for improved outcomes. It challenges the current approach to ameliorating the maternal crisis, which embeds maternal care into child health.
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in Birth Control, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals. Ever since doctors stole control of birth from midwives in the 19th century, women have been steamrolled by a male-dominated medical establishment that has everyone convinced...