Midwifery & the Medicalization of Childbirth

This book provides an introduction to the sociological study of midwifery. The readings have been selected to highlight the interplay between midwifery and medicine, reflecting the medicalisation of childbirth. It highlights the major themes in both a historical and a current context, as well as western and non-western societies.

Autorentext
Edwin van Teijlingen, George Lowis, Peter McCaffery, and Maureen Porter, Editors

Inhalt
PARTIAL CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; General Introduction (Van Teijlingen el al.); Sociological Factors Affecting the Medicalisation of Midwifery (Lowis & McCafffery); Part One: Toward Sociology Of Midwifery; Part Two: Medicalisation Of Childbirth And Midwifery; Introduction: History of Midwifery (Van Teijlingen); Midwives & maternity care in the Roman world; (French); Early Modern Midwifery A Case Study (Weisner); Louyse Bourgeois and the Emergence of Modern Midwifery (Kalisch el al.); Is Childbirth any Place for a Woman? The Decline of Midwifery in Eighteenth-Century England (Schnorrenberg); Perrette The Midwife... (Forbes); The Decline of The Midwife (Donnison); 'The Different Stages of the Elimination of Midwives in Quebec' (Laforce); 'Midwife Regulation, Education, & Practice in the Netherlands'... (Van Lieburg & Marland); Midwifery in Contemporary Western Societies (Porter); Models of Midwifery Care... (McKay); Maternity Home Care Assistants in the Netherlands (Van Teijlingen); The Role and Responsibilities of the Midwife in Scotland (Askham & Barbour); Domino Delivery... (Beck); Changing Childbirth? (Porter); An exception to the Canadian Case: Autonomous Midwifery at the Margins (Benoit); Medical Models and Midwifery: The Cultural Experience of Birth (Lichtman); Index.

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