Birth By Design
Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe
Raymond De Vries editor Cecilia Benoit editor Edwin van Teijlingen editor Sirpa Wrede editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:2nd Feb '01
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- Paperback£53.99(9780415923385)
This collection of essays contains leading research in maternity care from Europe, the United States and Canada to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. Birth By Design focuses on the practical side of 'good' social science research. This is a ground-breaking work that looks not only at maternity, but also the act of childbirth.
"Through their comparative and multi-leveled analyses, the editors and contributors remind readers that while birth is a natural physiological phenomenon, our understandings of birth, the birthing process, and how and from whom mothers should receive maternity care are culturally based and are continually constructed and reconstructed. By re-focusing our attention on birth outcomes as women's experiences and the reproduction of societies and culture, the editors and contributors of Birth by Design do problematize all contexts of maternity care, and by doing so, challenge birthing mothers, caregivers, and policy makers in our thinking about the birthing process." -- Canadian Journal of Sociology Online (CJS Online), March - April 2002
ISBN: 9780415923378
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 750g
320 pages