Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth

ISBN-13: 9780367259242 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 296 str.

Lorna Davies; Rea Daellenbach; Mary Kensington

Opis

This new edition outlines how sustainability can be incorporated into midwifery practice, education and research. It has been thoroughly revised to include new models of sustainable midwifery practice and new chapters on rural midwives and rural communities, social justice, and compassion.

Spis treści

Section One: The Politics of midwifery and Sustainability 1.Globalisation, midwifery and maternity services: struggles in meaning and practice in states under pressure.  2.Costing birth as commodity or sustainable public good.  3.Social justice, motherhood, and Midwives.  4.Valuing the labour of Midwives in Ontario, Canada and New Zealand.  Section Two: Midwifery as a Sustainable Healthcare Practice  5.The Midwife as Social Connector.  6.Sustained by joy: The potential of flow experience for midwives and mothers and the blocking of that flow.  7.Sustained by compassion.  8.Career or life cycle: The phenomenon of transitioning work-setting within Midwifery in order to remain personally and professionally sustainable.  9.Sustaining rural midwives and rural communities.  10.Good housekeeping in sustainable midwifery practice.  11.A values-based approach to sustainability literacy in a bachelor of midwifery programme.  Section Three: Supporting a sustainable approach to parenting  12.The pregnant environment  13.The birthing environment: a sustainable approach  14.Antenatal education: sustaining healthy families  15.Climate action and infant feeding  16.‘Good mothers’ in the age of finance.