Risk and choice in maternity care : an international perspective /: an international perspective. (©2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew Symon ; foreword by Professor Mavis Kirkham.
• Other Names: Symon, Andrew, 1961-
• Contents: 1. The risk-choice paradox / Andrew Symon -- 2. Healthcare's hidden risks : identifying vulnerability in healthcare systems / Brian Kennedy -- 3. Why informed consent is important in the exercise of maternal choice / Donna O'Boyle -- 4. The instability of risk : women's perspectives on risk and safety in birth / Nadine Pilley Edwards and Jo Murphy-Lawless -- 5. Risk and choice in maternity care : a view from Action on pre-eclampsia / Mike Rich -- 6. Risk and choice : a view from an inner city teaching hospital in the UK / Sinead McNally -- 7. Risk and choice : remote and rural risk issues in the UK / Lesley Anne Smith -- 8. Risk and normality in maternity care : revisioning risk for normal childbirth / Denis Walsh -- 9. Risk discourse in the UK : an obstetric perspective / Pall Agustsson -- 10. Conjuring choice while subverting autonomy : medical technocracy and home birth in Ireland / Marie O'Connor -- 11. Risk perception and analysis in Australia / Jennifer Cameron and David Ellwood -- 12. Choices, collaboration and outcomes in Australia / Jennifer Cameron and David Ellwood -- 13. Risk and choice : a US midwifery perspective / Janet Brooks -- 14. Risk and choice : knowldege and control / Andrew Symon.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone
• Publication Date: 2006
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 174 pages), 1 map
• Subjects: 362.1982; Informed consent (Medical law); Maternal health services; Midwifery; Obstetrics; Evidence-based medicine -- United States; Maternal health services -- United States; Obstetrics; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Informed consent (Medical law); Maternal health services; Midwifery; Obstetrics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780702035135; 0702035130
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.