Walsh / Downe Essential Midwifery Practice

Intrapartum Care
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-70001-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Essential Midwifery Practice

Intrapartum care has undergone profound changes over the past fiftyyears. Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care takesa broad sweep to examine these changes and their intersection withmidwifery, in particular their impact on the midwife's roleduring labour and birth. It is an invaluable guide for allmidwives.
Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care addressesa wide range of topics including the evolution of intrapartum care,debates about knowledge, and childbirth education. It looks atbirth environments, labour rhythms, working with pain, normalbirth, unusual labours, and complementary therapies. Written by keyexperts and providing guidance on best practice, this unique anddiverse text will bring readers up-to-date with the latest researchand reflection in their specialist fields.
* Written by key experts in their respective fields comingtogether for the first time
* Provides comprehensive examination of normal birthpractice
* Evidence-based, bringing you up-to-date with the latestresearch

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walsh, Denis

Downe, Soo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.
Introduction (Denis Walsh).
Chapter 1 Evolution of Current Systems of Intrapartum Care(Denis Walsh).
Chapter 2 Debates about Knowledge and Intrapartum Care(SooDowne).
Chapter 3 Childbirth Education: Politics, Equality and Relevance(Mary Nolan).
Chapter 4 Birth Environment (Denis Walsh).
Chapter 5 Labour Rhythms (Denis Walsh).
Chapter 6 Evidence for Neonatal Transition and the First Hour ofLife (Judith Mercer and Debra Erikson-Owens).
Chapter 7 Midwifery Presence: Philosophy, Science and Art(Holly Powell Kennedy, Tricia Anderson and Nicky Leap).
Chapter 8 Skills for Working with (the Woman in) Pain(Rosemary Mander).
Chapter 9 Complementary Therapies in Labour: A Woman-CentredApproach (Denise Tiran).
Chapter 10 Midwifery Skills for Normalising Unusual Labours(Verena Schmid and Soo Downe).
Chapter 11 Psychology and Labour Experience: Birth as a PeakExperience (Gill Thompson).
Chapter 12 Sexuality in Labour and Birth: An IntimatePerspective (Sarah Buckley).
Chapter 13 Spirituality and Labour Care (Jenny Hall).
Chapter 14 How Midwives Should Organise to Provide IntrapartumCare (Chris McCourt).
Chapter 15 Feminisms and Intrapartum Care (MaryStewart).
Chapter 16 Towards Salutogenic Birth in the 21stCentury (SooDowne).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Denis Walsh was born and brought up in Queensland but trained as amidwife in Leicester, UK. His PhD was on the Birth Centremodel and is now Associate Professor in Midwifery at the Universityof Nottingham. He lectures on evidence and skills for normalbirth internationally and is widely published on midwifery issuesand normal birth.
Soo Downe spent 15 years working as a midwife in variousclinical, research, and project development roles at Derby CityGeneral Hospital. She is now the Professor of Midwifery Studies atUCLan, where she leads the Research in Childbirth and Health(ReaCH) group. She set up, and now coordinates, the annualinternational normal birth research conference series. Her mainresearch focus is the nature of, and culture around, normalbirth.