Studying midwifery / Kirsty Darroch & Valerie Fleming -- Midwifery care in the community during the woman's pregnancy / Yvonne Fontein -- Midwifery care with the woman in labour in an institution / Miranda Page -- Midwifery care of the mother and baby at home / Allison Ewing -- Midwives and perinatal mental health / Eleanor Forrest -- The supervisor of midwives and the manager / Jean Duerden -- The academic midwife / Rosemary Mander -- The midwife as a researcher / Ans Luyben -- The global midwife / Valerie Fleming -- The independent and non-NHS midwife / Nessa McHugh -- A male midwife's perspective / Denis Walsh -- Do women care if their midwife has had children? / Carrie MacIntosh -- The midwife who is an author / Penny Curtis -- On not becoming a midwife : the role of the birth activist / Nadine Edwards -- The ex-midwife / Elaine Haycock-Stuart.