Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe

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ISBN: 9780415923385 | 0415923387
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Copyright: 2/2/2001

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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 Designfocuses 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.

Foreword

vii

Robbie Davis-Floyd

Introduction: Why Maternity Care Is Not Medical Care

Part I: The Politics of Maternity Care

Introduction to Part I

(4)

Sirpa Wrede

Where to Give Birth? Politics and the Place of Birth

(21)

Eugene Declercq

Raymond DeVries

Kirsi Viisainen

Helga B. Salvesen

Sirpa Wrede

The State and Birth/The State of Birth: Maternal Health Policy in Three Countries

(23)

Sirpa Wrede

Cecilia Benoit

Jane Sandall

Changing Birth: Interest Groups and Maternity Care Policy

(19)

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Eugene Declercq

Jane Sandall

Reforming Birth and (Re) making Midwifery in North America

(17)

Betty-Anne Daviss

Looking Within: Race, Class, and Birth

(30)

Margaret K. Nelson

Rebecca Popenoe

Part II: Providing Care

Introduction to Part II

115

(2)

Edwin R. van Teijlingen

Deciding Who Cares: Winners and Losers in the Late Twentieth Century

117

(22)

Jane Sandall

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Wouter J. Meijer

Beate A. Schuecking

Designing Midwives: A Comparison of Educational Models

139

(27)

Cecilia Benoit

Robbie Davis-Floyd

Edwin R. van Teijlingen

Jane Sandall

Janneli F. Miller

Telling Stories of Midwives

166

(14)

Leonie van der Hulst

Edwin R. van Teijlingen

Betty-Anne Daviss

Myriam Haagmans-Cortenraad

Annie Heuts-Verstraten

Jillian Ireland

Marike Roos-Ploeger

Spoiling the Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis in the Netherlands

180

(23)

Barbara Katz Rothman

Part III: Society, Technology, and Practice

Introduction to Part III

201

(2)

Cecilia Benoit

Maternity Care Policies and Maternity Care Practices: A Tale of Two Germanys

203

(15)

Susan L. Erikson

Constructing Risk: Maternity Care, Law, and Malpractice

218

(11)

Elizabeth Cartwright

Jan Thomas

Obstetrical Trajectories: On Training Women/Bodies for (Home) Birth

229

(14)

Bernike Pasveer

Madeleine Akrich

What (and Why) Do Women Want? The Desires of Women and the Design of Maternity Care

243

(24)

Raymond DeVries

Helga B. Salvesen

Therese A. Wiegers

A. Susan Williams

Appendix: The Politics of Numbers: The Promise and Frustration of Cross-National Analysis

267

(13)

Eugene Declerq

Kirsi Viisainen

Contributors

280

(5)

Index

285

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Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe

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