Midwifery

An expanded and updated new edition of Health Promotion in Midwifery, this book explores the principles of health promotion within the practical context of midwifery...

This book offers a broad overview and critical analysis of the present state of the field of "illness narratives," encompassing clinical case studies, ethnographic field studies and autobiographical case studies...

Written by two experienced practitioners, this is the first evidence-based practice book for medical professionals on this subject. Throughout the book the authors provide health professionals working in clinical midwifery practice with information and evidence-based findings to support the use of h..

This text makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery practice and women’s experience of birth. Demonstrating how empathising with women and understanding the context in which they live can affect childbirth outcomes, this evidence-based text emphasise..

This text makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery practice and women’s experience of birth. Demonstrating how empathising with women and understanding the context in which they live can affect childbirth outcomes, this evidence-based text emphasise..

This is a unique and practical resource for student midwives written by an experienced midwifery lecturer. It draws on a wide variety of real life case studies and enables student midwives to consider and prepare for ethical and legal dilemmas they may face in clinical practice...

This is a unique and practical resource for student midwives written by an experienced midwifery lecturer. It draws on a wide variety of real life case studies and enables student midwives to consider and prepare for ethical and legal dilemmas they may face in clinical practice...

Written by an experienced midwife and researcher, this new edition of a groundbreaking work examines ways in which midwives can assist families to embark on a healthy grieving process, and reflects the important developments in research into loss and death...

This book explores the lived experience of pregnancy after a perinatal loss. It develops a helpful framework, which integrates continuing bonds and attachment theories, to support prenatal parenting at each stage of pregnancy. The authors discuss each stage of a pregnancy, as well as labor and the p..

The first book to present the history, ideas, life and works of Chinese birth attendants, this volume seeks to encapsulate the changing ideas about midwifery in China. Using participant observations and interviews, it examines each phase of the development of midwifery in depth and provides a system..

All health professionals who work with women during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period need to have an appropriate knowledge of nutrition, healthy eating and other food related issues. This evidence-based text provides an informative and accessible introduction to nutrition in pregnancy and c..

All health professionals who work with women during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period need to have an appropriate knowledge of nutrition, healthy eating and other food related issues. This evidence-based text provides an informative and accessible introduction to nutrition in pregnancy and c..