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• Title:Normal childbirth : evidence and debate / edited by Soo Downe ; foreword by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Downe, Soo.
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WQ300 .N842 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Childbirth--Cross-cultural studies.
  Childbirth--Great Britain.
  Natural childbirth.
  Labor (Obstetrics)
  Midwifery.
  
• Medical Subjects: Parturition.
  Midwifery.
  Natural Childbirth.
  
• Description:xiii, 180 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0443073856 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Sect. 1. Ways of seeing
  1. From being to becoming : reconstructing childbirth knowledges / Soo Downe and Christine McCourt
  2. role of pain in normal birth and the empowerment of women / Nicky Leap and Tricia Anderson
  3. Birth and spirituality / Jenny Hall and Meg Taylor
  Sect. 2. Aspects of normality
  4. Normal birth : women's stories / Beverley Lawrence Beech and Belinda Phipps
  5. Midwives' practices in 11 UK maternity units / Marianne Mead
  6. Midwives constructing 'normal birth' / Sue Crabtree
  Sect. 3. Evidence and debate
  7. Risk, safety and the study of physiological birth / Denis Walsh, Amina El-Nemer and Soo Downe
  8. early pushing urge : practice and discourse / Soo Downe, Carol Young and Victoria Hall Moran / Trent Midwifery Research Group
  9. Fetal to neonatal transition : first, do no harm / Judith Mercer and Rebecca Skovgaard
  10. Promoting normal birth : weighing the evidence / Jane Sandall
  11. Aspects of a controversy : summary and debate / Soo Downe.