This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply the latest scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal physiological birth; deal appropriately with complications; and generate excellent birth outcomes—including psychological satisfaction for the mother. The book concludes with a description of the ideology that underlies all these working models—known internationally as the midwifery model of care.
Tabella dei contenuti
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
INTRODUCTION
Robbie Davis-Floyd, Lesley Barclay, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Jan Tritten
PART ONE. LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL MODELS
1. The Dutch Obstetrical System: Vanguard of the Future in Maternity Care
Raymond De Vries, Therese A. Wiegers, Beatrijs Smulders, and Edwin van Teijlingen
2. The New Zealand Maternity System: A Midwifery Renaissance
Chris Hendry
3. The Ontario Midwifery Model of Care
Margaret E. Mac Donald and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
4. Samoan Midwives’ Stories: Joining Social and Professional Midwives in New Models
of Birth
Lesley Barclay Utumuu
PART TWO. LOCAL MODELS IN DEVELOPED NATIONS: HOSPITALS AND BIRTH CENTERS
5. The Albany Midwifery Practice
Becky Reed and Cathy Walton
6. Small Really Is Beautiful: Tales from a Freestanding Birth Center in England
Denis Walsh
7. Transforming the Culture of a Maternity Service: St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Pat Brodie and Caroline Homer
8. Maternity Homes in Japan: Reservoirs of Normal Childbirth
Etsuko Matsuoka and Fumiko Hinokuma
9. The Northern New Mexico Midwifery Center Model, Taos, New Mexico
Elizabeth Gilmore
PART THREE. LOCAL MODELS IN DEVELOPING NATIONS: TRADITIONAL MIDWIVES, Professional
MIDWIVES AND OBSTETRICIANS WORKING TOGETHER
10. Teamwork: An Obstetrician, a Midwife, and a Doula in Brazil
Ricardo Herbert Jones
11. The CASA Hospital and Professional Midwifery School: An Education and Practice
Model That Works
Lisa Mills and Robbie Davis-Floyd
12. Mercy in Action: Bringing Mother- and Baby-Friendly Birth Centers to the Philippines
Vicki Penwell
PART FOUR. MAKING MODELS WORK
13. Circles of Community: The Centering Pregnancy® Group Prenatal Care Model
Sharon Schindler Rising and Rima Jolivet
14. Humanizing Childbirth to Reduce Maternal and Neonatal Mortality: A National
Effort in Brazil
Daphne Rattner, Isa Paula Hamouche Abreu, Maria José de Oliveira Araújo, and
Adson Roberto França Santos
15. “Orchestrating Normal”: The Conduct of Midwifery in the United States
Holly Powell Kennedy
CONCLUSION
Robbie Davis-Floyd, Lesley Barclay, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Jan Tritten
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Circa l’autore
Robbie E. Davis-Floyd is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University of Texas, Austin, and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage (second edition, UC Press), among other books. Lesley Barclay is Director and Professor at the Centre for Family Health and Midwifery at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Betty-Anne Daviss is a practicing midwife and Adjunct Professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies at Carleton University. Jan Tritten is founder and editor-in-chief of Midwifery Today magazine.
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