The Midwife-Mother Relationship

ISBN-13: 9780230577367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 296 str.

Mavis Kirkham

Opis

Covering completely new topics areas, including the effects of emotional labour, poverty and health policy, the new edition of this ground-breaking text brings together classic and current research to establish key tenets for maternity care within hospital and home. It remains the definitive guide to the complex area of midwife-mother relations.

Spis treści

Introduction The Maternity Services Context; M.Kirkham The Less We Do the More We Give; N.Leap Emotion Work and Relationships in Midwifery; R.Deery & B.Hunter The Midwife: a Professional Servant? M.Cronk Poor Relations: the Paucity of the Professional Paradigm; R.Wilkins 'There's so much potential...and for whatever reason it's not being realised' Women's Relationships with Midwives as a Negotiation of Ideology and Practice; N.Edwards Feeling Safe Enough to Let Go: the Relationship between a Woman and her Midwife during the Second Stage of Labour; T.Anderson The Midwife/Mother Relationship where there is Poverty and Disadvantage; A.Gaudion & C.Homeyard Pakistani Muslim Women and Midwives Relationships: What are the Essential Attributes?; K.Bharj & M.Chesney Midwifery Relationships with Childbearing Women at Increased Risk; M.Berg Midwives' Personal Experiences and their Relationships with Women: Midwives without Children and Midwives who have Experienced Pregnancy Loss; C.Bewley Midwifery Partnership: a Professionalising Strategy for Midwives; S.Pairman The Midwife as Container; M.Taylor We Need to Relate; M.Kirkham.

O autorze

MAVIS KIRKHAM is Emeritus Professor of Midwifery at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.