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The New Midwifery
Farah M. Shroff (Ed.)
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Description for The New Midwifery
Paperback.
The New Midwifery offers a critical perspective on women's reproductive health and midwifery issues. This incisive collection of essays examines the impact of professionalization, legalization, and state involvement on women-centred care and on the perspectives of midwifery consumers. Midwives and social scientists from a variety of cultural identities, political perspectives, geographical locations, and education and training backgrounds reflect, in clear and accessible language, on the legislative processes involved in the regulation of midwifery. Given that legalization of what has, until recently, been a lay practitioners arena promises to be the wave of the future for many jurisdictions, parents-to-be, policy makers, ... Read more
The New Midwifery offers a critical perspective on women's reproductive health and midwifery issues. This incisive collection of essays examines the impact of professionalization, legalization, and state involvement on women-centred care and on the perspectives of midwifery consumers. Midwives and social scientists from a variety of cultural identities, political perspectives, geographical locations, and education and training backgrounds reflect, in clear and accessible language, on the legislative processes involved in the regulation of midwifery. Given that legalization of what has, until recently, been a lay practitioners arena promises to be the wave of the future for many jurisdictions, parents-to-be, policy makers, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Women's Press of Canada Canada
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780889612242
SKU
V9780889612242
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About Farah M. Shroff (Ed.)
Farah Mahrukh Shroff, BSc, Med (Primary Health Care), PhD, works in the areas of health, social justice, and holism. As an activist, educator and health professional, she had worked in many parts of the South, in Europe, and all over Canada. Her research areas include holistic health, policy, HIV/AIDS, women’s health, and community development and health.
Reviews for The New Midwifery
This book is a wonderful collection of articles by those who have been instrumental in shaping the face of midwifery in this country. Questions about the benefits and drawbacks of regulation, issues important to Aboriginal women, women with disabilities, and women from diverse ethnocultural backgrounds, along with important documentation of the process of legislation throughout the country, make this collection ... Read more