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• Title:Birthing autonomy : women's experiences of planning home births / Nadine Pilley Edwards.
  
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• Author/Creator:Edwards, Nadine Pilley, 1957-
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WQ155 .E39 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Childbirth at home--Great Britain.
  
• Medical Subjects: Home Childbirth--England.
  Feminism--England.
  Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice--England.
  Midwifery--England.
  Women's Rights--England.
  
• Description:ix, 305 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-297) and index.
  
• ISBN:0415354080 (hbk : alk. paper)
  0415354099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introducing the women
  1. Home birth? : what's the problem?
  2. What do we know? : what does she know? : can anyone know anything?
  3. How have we got here? : historical and current perspectives
  4. What's safe and what's risky?
  5. 'What I really need is support' : relationships between women and midwives
  6. 'They think it's best' : the ethical implications of obstetrics
  7. Where now?