Informed Choice in Maternity Care

ISBN-13: 9780333998434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 302 str.

Mavis Kirkham

Opis

Informed choice in maternity care is government policy and is therefore an important issue in the education of midwives and obstetricians. This book brings together key research in the area and provides a forum for the concerns of all involved. Contributors are drawn from a wide range of perspectives, including service users, lay support groups, midwives, social scientists, obstetricians, nursing and law. Informed Choice in Maternity Care is timely, topical and covers a number of current debates.

Spis treści

Introduction; M.Kirkham.- Why Can't Women Just Say No? And Does it Really Matter?; N.Pilley-Edwards.- Informed Choice in Maternity Care; B.Hewson.- How Midwives Used Protective Steering to Facilitate Informed Choice in Pregnancy; V.Levy.- Can Leaflets Deliver Informed Choice?; A.O'Cathain.- Is There a Difference Between a Free Gift and a Planned Purchase? The Use of Evidence Based Leaflets in Maternity Care; H.Stapleton.- The Culture of the Maternity Services in Wales and England as a Barrier to Informed Choice; M.Kirkham & H.Stapleton.- Information Used by Pregnant Women, and Their Understanding and Use of Evidence-Based 'Informed Choice' Leaflets; M.Wiggins & N.Newburn.- Integrating MIDIRS Informed Choice Leaflets into a Maternity Service; J.Demilew.- Should Doctors Perform Caesarean for 'Informed Choice' Alone?; S.Bewley & J.Cockburn.- Negotiating Elective Caesarean Section: An Obstetric Team Perspective; J.Simpson.- Birth Experiences of South Asian Muslim Women: Marginalized Choice within the Maternity Service; N.Ellis.- The Misleading Myth of Choice: The Continuing Oppression of Women in Childbirth; T.Anderson.- Choice and Bureaucracy; M.Kirkham.

O autorze

MAVIS KIRKHAM is Professor of Midwifery in the Women's Informed Childbearing and Health (WICH) Research Group at the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Sheffield, and a prolific midwifery author. Her previous publications include The Midwife-Mother Relationship (Palgrave, 2000), Developments in the Supervision of Midwives (Books for Midwives, 2000), and Reflections on Midwifery (Balliere Tindall, 1997).