Midwifery, freedom to practise?
Subtitle: an international exploration and examination of midwifery practice
By: edited by Lindsay Reid.
Contributors: Reid, Lindsay.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780443103124
Subjects: Midwives -- Cross-cultural studies; Midwifery -- Cross-cultural studies; Midwifery; Benchmarking; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Midwifery -- legislation & jurisprudence
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Best practice : aims and realities / Lindsay Reid; title: The awakening of midwifery in Australia / Jenny Gamble and Barbara Vernon; title: Embracing change : maintaining standards / Elaine Madden; title: Midwifery practice in Ghana and Malawi : influences of the health system / Julia Hussein ... [et al.]; title: Does being a principality with an assembly government help midwives in Wales to be free to practise? / Sandy Kirkman and Polly Ferguson; title: Between a rock and a hard place : the situation of the Finnish midwife / Rosemary Mander; title: Midwifery led care / Liz Stephens; title: The impact of war on the practice of midwifery and the wellbeing of women and children in Iraq / Barbara Kuypers; title: Midwifery Irish style : government policy, its effects on midwifery practice / Mary Higgins; title: A culturally diverse and disease-burdened environment : the effects on midwifery practice / Cheryl Nikodem; title: Birthing in Latvia : midwives serving lovingly / Rudite Bruvere; title: Normal birth in Scotland : the effects of policy, geography, and culture / Lindsay Reid; title: Independence in practice  :a New Zealand case study of midwives in partnership / Rea Daellenbach and Juliet Thorpe; title: Women supporting midwifery : the influence of consumer organisations on best practice / Mary Nolan.