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• Title:Risk and choice in maternity care : an international perspective / edited by Andrew Symon ; foreword by Mavis Kirkham.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Symon, Andrew, 1961-
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA310 .R595 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Missing - 08-12-2013
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Maternal health services.
  Hospitals--Maternity services--Risk management.
  Pregnant women--Health risk assessment.
  Informed consent (Medical law)
  Midwifery--Practice.
  
• Medical Subjects: Maternal Health Services--Australia.
  Maternal Health Services--Great Britain.
  Maternal Health Services--Ireland.
  Maternal Health Services--United States.
  Cross-Cultural Comparison--Australia.
  Cross-Cultural Comparison--Great Britain.
  Cross-Cultural Comparison--Ireland.
  Cross-Cultural Comparison--United States.
  Midwifery--Australia.
  Midwifery--Great Britain.
  Midwifery--Ireland.
  Midwifery--United States.
  Patient Participation--Australia.
  Patient Participation--Great Britain.
  Patient Participation--Ireland.
  Patient Participation--United States.
  Pregnancy Complications--prevention & control--Australia.
  Pregnancy Complications--prevention & control--Great Britain.
  Pregnancy Complications--prevention & control--Ireland.
  Pregnancy Complications--prevention & control--United States.
  Risk Management--Australia.
  Risk Management--Great Britain.
  Risk Management--Ireland.
  Risk Management--United States.
  
• Description:xii, 174 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780443101519 (pbk.)
  0443101515 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. risk-choice paradox / Andrew Symon
  2. Healthcare's hidden risks : identifying vulnerability in healthcare systems / Brian Kennedy
  3. Why informed consent is important in the exercise of maternal choice / Donna O'Boyle
  4. instability of risk : women's perspectives on risk and safety in birth / Nadine Pilley Edwards and Jo Murphy-Lawless
  5. Risk and choice in maternity care : a view from action on pre-eclampsia / Mike Rich
  6. Risk and choice : a view from an inner city teaching hospital in the UK / Sinead McNally
  7. Risk and choice : remote and rural risk issues in the UK / Lesley Anne Smith
  8. Risk and normality in maternity care : revisioning risk for normal childbirth / Denis Walsh
  9. Risk discourse in the UK : an obstetric perspective / Pall Agustsson
  10. Conjuring choice while subverting autonomy : medical technocracy and home birth in Ireland / Marie O'Connor
  11. Risk perception and analysis in Australia / Jennifer Cameron and David Ellwood
  12. Choices, collaboration and outcomes in Australia / Jennifer Cameron and David Ellwood
  13. Risk and choice : a US midwifery perspective / Janet Brooks
  14. Risk and choice : knowledge and control / Andrew Symon.