Birth Models That Work

✍ Scribed by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd (editor); Lesley Barclay (editor); Jan Tritten (editor); Betty-Anne Daviss (editor)

Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 493
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal physiological birth; deal appropriately with complications; and generate excellent birth outcomes—including psychological satisfaction for the mother. The book concludes with a description of the ideology that underlies all these working models—known internationally as the midwifery model of care.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of figures and tables
Introduction
Part One. Large-Scale Systems: National and regional models
1. The Dutch Obstetrical System: Vanguard of the Future in Maternity Care
2. The New Zealand Maternity System: A Midwifery Renaissance
3. The Ontario Midwifery Model of Care
4. Samoan Midwives’ Stories: Joining Social and Professional Midwives in New Models of Birth
Part Two. Local models in developed nations: hospitals and birth centers
5. The Albany Midwifery Practice
6. Small Really Is Beautiful: Tales from a Freestanding Birth Center in England
7. Transforming the Culture of a Maternity Service: St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia
8. Maternity Homes in Japan: Reservoirs of Normal Childbirth
9. The Northern New Mexico Midwifery Center Model, Taos, New Mexico
Part Three. Local models in developing nations: traditional midwives, professional midwives, and obstetricians working together
10. Teamwork: An Obstetrician, a Midwife, and a Doula in Brazil
11. The CASA Hospital and Professional Midwifery School: An Education and Practice Model That Works
12. Mercy in Action: Bringing Mother- and Baby-Friendly Birth Centers to the Philippines
Part Four. Making Models Work
13. Circles of Community: The CenteringPregnancy^® Group Prenatal Care Model
14. Humanizing Childbirth to Reduce Maternal and Neonatal Mortality: A National Effort in Brazil
15. “Orchestrating Normal”: The Conduct of Midwifery in the United States
Conclusion
Contributors
Index

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Birth Models That Work

📁 Birth Models That Work

✍ Robbie E. Davis-Floyd; Lesley Barclay; Jan Tritten; Betty-Anne Daviss 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Univ of California Press 🌐 English

Joint Libraries : Models That Work

📁 Joint Libraries : Models That Work

✍ Claire B. Gunnels; Susan E. Green; Patricia M. Butler 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 American Library Association 🌐 English

The joint-use college/public library can be an ideal solution to serving patrons while managing overextended resources, and this illuminating book scrutinizes successes and failures of the joint-use model.

Water Quality Modeling That Works

📁 Water Quality Modeling That Works

✍ Wu-Seng Lung 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

<span>This book offers a practical guidance for environmental engineers and scientists charged with assessing the cause-and-effect of pollutants in receiving water systems. Instead of blindly running models, which is a practice seen too often in today’s field that can result in results with uncertai

Bodies that Birth: Vitalizing Birth Poli

📁 Bodies that Birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics

✍ Rachelle Chadwick 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

<P><EM>Bodies that Birth</EM> puts birthing bodies at the centre of questions about contemporary birth politics, power, and agency. Arguing that the fleshy and embodied aspects of birth have been largely silenced in social science scholarship, Rachelle Chadwick uses an array of birth stories, from d

Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Ac

📁 Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities

✍ Alana Apfel, Silvia Federici, Victoria Law 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 PM Press 🌐 English

Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more becomes political, and birth workers, supporters, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity. A

Birth Work As Care Work

📁 Birth Work As Care Work

✍ Unknown 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 PM Press 🌐 English