Joy at Birth: An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry

ISBN-13: 9781032089881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

Susan Crowther

Opis

This book draws on a collection of stories of birth from mothers, birth partners, obstetricians and midwives, that demonstrate joy at birth across professional groups and in different types of births and locations with or without technological interventions.

Spis treści

Part 1: An Invitation into a Clearing  1. Introduction  2. Philosophical underpinnings  3. Context and Mood  Part 2: A Journey of Poiesis  4. Making joy visible  5. Joy as spatial and embodied  6. Joy as relational gathering  7. Joy as temporal mystery  Part 3: New Horizons  8. Kairos and shared natality  9. Thinking anew  10. Ecology of birth  Epilogue: Personal transformation

O autorze

Susan Crowther is a visting professor of midwifery at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, a freelance senior academic, researcher, author, editor, reviewer and occasional locum rural caseload midwife residing in New Zealand.