Normal childbirth : evidence and debate /: evidence and debate. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Soo Downe ; foreword by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd.
• Other Names: Downe, Soo
• Contents: From being to becoming : reconstructing childbirth knowledges / Soo Downe and Christine McCourt -- The role of pain in normal birth and the empowerment of women / Nicky Leap and Tricia Anderson -- Birth and spirituality / Jennifer Hall -- Normal birth : women's stories / Beverley A. Lawrence Beech and Belinda Phipps -- Midwives' practices in 11 UK maternity units / Marianne Mead -- Midwives constructing "normal birth" / Susan Crabtree -- Rethinking risk and safety in maternity care / Denis Walsh, Amina M.R. El-Nemer, and Soo Downe -- The early pushing urge : practice and discourse / Soo Downe [and others] -- Fetal to neonatal transition : first, do no harm / Judith Mercer, Rebecca Skovgaard and Debra Erickson-Owens -- Promoting normal birth : weighing the evidence / Denis Walshl -- Aspects of a controversy : summary and debate / Soo Downe.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 200 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 618.4/5; Childbirth -- Cross-cultural studies; Childbirth -- Great Britain; Natural childbirth; Labor (Obstetrics); Midwifery; Parturition; Midwifery; Natural Childbirth; MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics; Childbirth; Labor (Obstetrics); Midwifery; Natural childbirth; Great Britain; Electronic books; Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780702037924; 0702037923
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; 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.