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Pleasing Birth

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Description for Pleasing Birth Paperback. Women have long searched for a pleasing birth, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. Looking at the Dutch notion of maternity care, this work documents the way culture shapes the organization of health care. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 b/w illustrations, 4 tables, 21 figures. BIC Classification: 1DDN; MBP; MQD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Women have long searched for a pleasing birth-a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: every other modern nation regards birth as too risky to occur outside a hospital setting. ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592131037
SKU
V9781592131037
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About de
Raymond De Vries is Professor of Sociology at St. Olaf College and Visiting Professor at the Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota. He is the author or editor of seven previous books, including, Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care, and Midwifery in North America and Europe.

Reviews for Pleasing Birth
"In this detailed and thoughtful study, De Vries does much more than introduce us to the peculiar maternity care system of the Netherlands; he forces us to reexamine our assumptions about the way health care systems are organized, and offers new, and revolutionary, ways to think about health care reform. This is sociological analysis at its best."-Charles L. Bosk, Ph.D., ... Read more

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