Normal childbirth
Subtitle: evidence and debate
By: edited by Soo Downe ; foreword by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd.
Contributors: Downe, Soo.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780443069437
Subjects: Childbirth -- Cross-cultural studies; Childbirth -- Great Britain; Natural childbirth; Labor (Obstetrics); Midwifery; Parturition; Midwifery; Natural Childbirth
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From being to becoming : reconstructing childbirth knowledges / Soo Downe and Christine McCourt; title: The role of pain in normal birth and the empowerment of women / Nicky Leap and Tricia Anderson; title: Birth and spirituality / Jennifer Hall; title: Normal birth : women's stories / Beverley Lawrence Beech and Belinda Phipps; title: Midwives' practices in 11 UK maternity units / Marianne Mead; title: Midwives constructing "normal birth" / Susan Crabtree; title: Rethinking risk and safety in maternity care / Denis Walsh, Amina M.R. El-Nemer, and Soo Downe; title: The early pushing urge : practice and discourse / Soo Downe ... [et al.]; title: Fetal to neonatal transition : first, do no harm / Judith S. Mercer, Rebecca Skovgaard, Debra Erickson-Owens; title: Promoting normal birth : weighing the evidence / Denis Walsh and Jane Sandall; title: Aspects of a controversy : summary and debate / Soo Downe.