Birth by design : pregnancy, maternity care, and midwifery in North America and Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: De Vries, Raymond G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Routledge, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why maternity care is not medical care
  • pt. I. The politics of maternity care
  • Where to give birth? Politics and the place of birth
  • The state and birth/The state of birth: maternal health policy in three countries
  • Changing birth: interest groups and maternal care policy
  • Reforming birth and (re)making midwifery in North America
  • Looking within: race, class, and birth
  • pt. II. Providing care
  • Deciding who cares: winners and losers in the late twentieth century
  • Designing midwives: a comparison of educational models
  • Telling stories of midwives - Spoiling the pregnancy: prenatal diagnosis in the Netherlands
  • pt. III. Society, technology, and practice
  • Maternity care policies and maternity care practices: a tale of two Germanys
  • Constructing risk: maternity care, law, and malpractice
  • Obstetrical trajectories: on trading women/bodies for (home) birth
  • What (and why) do women want? The desires of women and the design of maternity care.