Birth territory and midwifery guardianship
Subtitle: practice, research, and education
By: edited by Kathleen Fahy, Maralyn Foureur, Carolyn Hastie.
Contributors: Fahy, Kathleen.; Foureur, Maralyn.; Hastie, Carolyn.
Publisher: Books for Midwives
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750688703
Subjects: Midwifery -- Social aspects; Childbirth -- Social aspects; Midwifery; Power (Psychology); Pregnancy -- psychology; Professional Autonomy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Power and the social construction of birth territory / Kathleen Fahy; title: Theorising birth territory / Kathleen Fahy; title: Midwifery guardianship: reclaiming the sacred in birth / Kathleen Fahy & Carolyn Hastie; title: Territories of the self and spiritual practices during childbirth / Jenny Parratt; title: Creating birth space to enable undisturbed birth / Maralyn Foureur; title: The spiritual and emotional territory of the unborn and newborn baby / Carolyn Hastie; title: Creating physical space / Bianca Lepori, Maralyn Foureur & Carolyn Hastie; title: Being a midwife to midwifery: transforming midwifery services / Lesley Page; title: Birth territory: the role of the obstetrician / Michel Odent; title: From ideal to real: the interface between birth territory and the maternity service organisation / Pat Brodie and Nicky Leap.