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Title:

Birth models that work / edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd ... [et al.].

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 484 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Maternal health services--Cross-cultural studies.
Childbirth--Cross-cultural studies.
Labor (Obstetrics)--Cross-cultural studies.
Midwifery--Cross-cultural studies.
Maternal Health Services.
Birthing Centers.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Delivery, Obstetric.
Midwifery.
Models, Organizational.

Other Authors:

Davis-Floyd, Robbie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Maternity homes in Japan : reservoirs of normal childbirth / Etsuko Matsuoka and Fumiko Hinokuma -- The New Zealand maternity system : a midwifery renaissance / Chris Hendry -- The Ontario midwifery model of care / Margaret E. MacDonald and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault -- Samoan midwives' stories : joining social and professional midwives in new models of birth / Lesley Barclay Utumuu -- The Albany midwifery practice / Becky Reed and Cathy Walton -- Small really is beautiful : tales from a freestanding birth center in England / Denis Walsh -- Transforming the culture of a maternity service : St. George Hospital, Sydney, Australia / Pat Brodie and Caroline Homer -- Maternity homes in Japan : reservoirs of normal childbirth / Etsuko Matsuoka and Fumiko Hinokuma --
"Orchestrating normal" : the conduct of midwifery in the United States / Holly Powell Kennedy. Teamwork : an obstetrician, a midwife, and a doula in Brazil / Ricardo Herbert Jones -- The CASA Hospital and professional midwifery school : an education and practice model that works / Lisa Mills and Robbie Davis-Floyd -- Mercy in action : bringing mother- and baby-friendly birth centers to the Philippines / Vicki Penwell -- Circles of community : the CenteringPregnancy Group prenatal care model / Sharon Schindler Rising and Rima Jolivet -- Humanizing childbirth to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality : a national effort in Brazil / Daphne Rattner ... [et al.] -- "Orchestrating normal" : the conduct of midwifery in the United States / Holly Powell Kennedy.

ISBN:

0520258916 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520258914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520248635 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520248632 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244481284

LCCN:

2008037220

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)