A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, 3rd Edition

✍ Scribed by Cheri Van Hoover

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 26 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1526-9523
• DOI: 10.1016/s1526-9523(02)00252-0

✦ Synopsis

Recent trends in midwifery have led us to focus on the science of our profession with greater vigor than may have been the case in the past. Evidence-based practice helps us to offer the safest, most up-to-date care for our clients and adds to our professional credibility. The latest edition of Enkin's book: A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, reviewed below, will assist midwives in delivering this style of care. But midwifery is set apart from many other disciplines by the willingness to embrace the totality of women's social, emotional, political, and spiritual experiences. The following reviews represent an extraordinary collection of scholarly works which address these issues, thoughtfully considering the external and internal pressures acting to shape women's experiences of their own fertility. In women's lives, the personal is inescapably political, and the political will always have an impact on personal choice.

A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, 3 rd Edition.