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Understanding Doulas and Childbirth: Women, Love, and Advocacy
Hunter, Cheryl A., Hurst, Abby
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Description for Understanding Doulas and Childbirth: Women, Love, and Advocacy
Hardcover. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 220 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
This book contextualizes how having a doula, or labor-support woman, present during childbirth results in lower rates of medical interventions. American women are inundated with views that childbirth is inherently risky, their bodies deficient, and therefore encouraged to accept the medicalized nature of childbirth resulting in high rates of unwarranted interventions that can pose significant risk in a normal pregnancy. Why is birthing with a doula different? The narratives in this book support the belief that doulas often question the high rates of medical interventions in childbirth, fundamentally lodging a critique about the medicalization of childbirth to the ... Read more
This book contextualizes how having a doula, or labor-support woman, present during childbirth results in lower rates of medical interventions. American women are inundated with views that childbirth is inherently risky, their bodies deficient, and therefore encouraged to accept the medicalized nature of childbirth resulting in high rates of unwarranted interventions that can pose significant risk in a normal pregnancy. Why is birthing with a doula different? The narratives in this book support the belief that doulas often question the high rates of medical interventions in childbirth, fundamentally lodging a critique about the medicalization of childbirth to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137485359
SKU
V9781137485359
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99-15
About Hunter, Cheryl A., Hurst, Abby
Cheryl A. Hunter is Assistant Professor in the department of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota, USA. As a sociologist, her research focuses on micro-level analyses: educational interactions that happen between individuals and the different intercultural contexts in which those interactions arise. She considers herself a translational researcher, producing research that reaches the people of which ... Read more
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