Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christine McCourt.
• Other Names: McCourt, Christine, 1960-
• Contents: List of Figures Foreword ; Ronnie Frankenberg Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT Chapter 1. From Tradition to Modernity: Time and Childbirth in Historical Perspective; Christine McCourt and Fiona Dykes Chapter 2. Cosmologies, Concepts and Theories: Time and Childbirth in Cross-cultural Perspective; Christine McCourt PART II: TIME AND CHILDBIRTH PRACTICES Chapter 3. Counting Time in Pregnancy and Labour; Soo Downe and Fiona Dykes Chapter 4. The Progress of Labour: Orderly Chaos?; Clare Winter and Margie Duff Chapter 5. Time and Midwifery Practice; Trudy Stevens Chapter 6. "Waiting on Birth": Management of Time and Place in a Birth Centre; Denis Walsh Chapter 7. Management of Time in Aboriginal and Northern Midwifery Settings; Gisela Becker PART III: TIME AND CHILDBIRTH EXPERIENCES Chapter 8. Narrative Time: Stories, Childbirth and Midwifery; Ólöf Ólafsdóttir and Mavis Kirkham Chapter 9. How Long Have I Got? Time in Labour: Themes from Women's Birth Stories; Christine McCourt Chapter 10. "Feeding All the Time": Women's Temporal Dilemmas around Breastfeeding in Hospital; Fiona Dykes Chapter 11. Living with "Uncertainty": Women's Experience of Breastfeeding in the Current Japanese Social Context; Naoko Hashimoto Conclusion Notes on Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 618.4; Childbirth; Midwifery; Public health; Time -- Sociological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857455420; 0857455427
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