Home birth
Subtitle: the politics of difficult choices
By: Mary Nolan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780415557542; 9780415557559; 9780203836675
Subjects: Health Policy; Informed Consent; Childbirth at home; Home Childbirth; Decision making; Patient Compliance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Policy? Does it mean what it says?; title: Choosing home birth against medical advice; title: Fear and risk; title: Choice, bullying, and coercion; title: Communication and language; title: Avoidance, subversion, and confrontation; title: Stress in pregnancy and birth; title: Men's experience of home birth against medical advice; title: Free birth : the end of the choice continuum; title: Advocacy, empathy, and autonomy; title: The dialectic between possibilities and limits.