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“sheila kitzinger”

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  • Rediscovering Birth

    by Sheila Kitzinger ...
    For thousands of years women have given birth among people they know in a place they know well. Knowledge is shared and birth is a social event. In northern industrial societies today, when a women gets pregnant she may be presented with various options. Yet if it is her first baby she has only the vaguest idea of how birth feels and how other women cope. Birth is set apart from the rest of women ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Birth and Sex

    by Sheila Kitzinger ...

    $9.99 USD

  • Birth over 35

    by Sheila Kitzinger ...
    Birth statistics from the Office for National Statistics show that more women than ever before become mothers later in life. The trend is also backed up by figures from other countries around the world. In developed countries there is an upsurge in the age of mothers giving birth for the first time, and in the UK alone there are now more first-time mothers giving birth in the 30-34 age group than ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Birth Crisis

    by Sheila Kitzinger ...
    One new mother in twenty is diagnosed with traumatic stress after childbirth. In Birth Crisis Sheila Kitzinger explores the disempowerment and anxiety experienced by these women. Key topics discussed include:increasing intervention in pregnancythe shift in emphasis from relationships to technology in childbirthhow family, friends and professional caregivers can reach out to traumatized mothershow ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Improving Maternity Services

    The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews, Vol 2

    by Denis Walsh, Sheila Kitzinger, Norman Ellis ...
    This title includes Foreword by Sheila Kitzinger, Writer, Researcher, Activist and Honorary Professor, Wolfson School of Health Sciences, Thames Valley University. Birth centres are suitable for every woman whose birth is straightforward, which accounts for around 75 per cent of all women. This inspirational guide shows how small scale maternity provision has a profound clinical and organisational ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Childbirth in the Global Village

    Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice

    by Dawn Hillier ...
    Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth practices and its implications for midwifery ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Breastfeeding in Hospital

    Mothers, Midwives and the Production Line

    by Fiona Dykes ...
    'Breast is best' is today’s prevailing mantra. However, women – particularly first-time mothers – frequently feel unsupported when they come to feed their baby. This new experience often takes place in the impersonal and medicalized surroundings of a hospital maternity ward where women are 'seen to' by overworked midwives.Using a UK-based ethnographic study and interview material, this book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Give Birth Like a Feminist

    Your body. Your baby. Your choices.

    by Milli Hill ...
    As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parentsBirth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about.For too long women have been told, ‘a healthy baby is all that matters’. This book dares to say women matter too.Finally blasting the feminist spotlight into the labour ward, Milli Hill enc... ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Politics of Maternity

    by Rosemary Mander, Jo Murphy-Lawless ...
    The evidence surrounding the skills and approaches to support good birth has grown exponentially over the last two decades, but so too have the obstacles facing women and midwives who strive to achieve good birth.This new book critically explores the complex issues surrounding contemporary childbirth practices in a climate which is ever more medicalised amidst greater insecurity at broad social ... Read more

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  • Expertise Leadership and Collaborative Working

    Edited by Soo Downe, Sheena Byrom, Louise Simpson ...
    Series series Essential Midwifery Practice
    Leadership, expertise, and collaborative working are fundamental aspects of efficient and effective healthcare. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the general theories, principles and points of good practice in each of these three areas. This general literature is then contextualised by theoretical and practical implications for maternity care, and illustrated with in-depth case studies ... Read more

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  • Vaccine Hesitancy

    Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

    by Maya Goldenberg ...
    Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science AwardThe public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later ... Read more

    $31.49 USD