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• Title:The politics of birth / Sheila Kitzinger.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kitzinger, Sheila.
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh ; New York : Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, 2005.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WQ100 .K48 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Medical Subjects:Delivery, Obstetric--psychology--Great Britain.
  Maternal Health Services--Great Britain.
  Midwifery--Great Britain.
  Pregnancy--psychology--Great Britain.
  Pregnant Women--psychology--Great Britain.
  Social Values--Great Britain.
  
• Description:x, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0750688769
  
• Contents:1. Giving birth
  2. birth place
  3. clock, the bed and the chair
  4. Images of birth and breastfeeding
  5. Breastfeeding : public health, birth and shame
  6. Birth education : from pedagogy to politics
  7. language of birth
  8. Touch and its meanings
  9. caesarean epidemic
  10. Court-ordered caesareans
  11. Birth plans
  12. Home birth
  13. Waterbirth
  14. Birth dance
  15. What's happening to midwives?
  16. Doulas
  17. Fathers
  18. Children at birth
  19. Silence is collusion : violence in pregnancy
  20. Mothers and babies behind bars
  21. Pregnant asylum seekers : the dispossessed
  22. Changing our birth culture.