Birthing autonomy
Subtitle: women's experiences of planning home births
By: Nadine Pilley Edwards.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Milton Park Oxfordshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Childbirth at home -- Great Britain; Home Childbirth -- England; Feminism -- England; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice -- England; Midwifery -- England; Women's Rights -- England
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Home birth? what's the problem?; title: What do we know? What does she know? Does anyone know anything?; title: How have we got here? Historical and current perspectives; title: 'I don't believe that one is less safe in one's own home': what's safe and what's risky?; title: 'What I really need is support': relationships between women and midwives; title: 'They think it's best': the ethical implications of obstetrics; title: Where now?