pregnancy, maternity care, and midwifery in North America and Europe /
edited by Raymond DeVries [and three others].
London :
Routledge,
2001.
1 online resource (xviii, 301 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the US, Canada, and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. A groundbreaking work which gives a truly international understanding.