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Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time / edited by Christine McCourt.
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Title:Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time / edited by Christine McCourt.
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Other Contributors/Collections:McCourt, Christine, 1960-
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Published/Created:New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: GN482.1 .C55 2009
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Childbirth.
Midwifery.
Public health.
Time--Sociological aspects.
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Description:xviii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Series:Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; v. 17.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:184545586X (hardback : alk. paper)
9781845455866 (hardback : alk. paper)
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Contents:Foreword / Ronnie Frankenberg
Pt. I. Historical and Cultural Context
1. From Tradition to Modernity: Time and Childbirth in Historical Perspective / Christine McCourt and Fiona Dykes
2. Cosmologies, Concepts and Theories: Time and Childbirth in Cross-cultural Perspective / Christine McCourt
Pt. II. Time and Childbirth Practices
3. Counting Time in Pregnancy and Labour / Soo Downe and Fiona Dykes
4. Progress of Labour: Orderly Chaos? / Clare Winter and Margie Duff
5. Time and Midwifery Practice / Trudy Stevens
6. 'Waiting on Birth': Management of Time and Place in a Birth Centre / Denis Walsh
7. Management of Time in Aboriginal and Northern Midwifery Settings / Gisela Becker
Pt. III. Time and Childbirth Experiences
8. Narrative Time: Stories, Childbirth and Midwifery / Olof Asta Olafsdottir and Mavis Kirkham
9. How Long Have I Got? Time in Labour: Themes from Women's Birth Stories / Christine McCourt
10. 'Feeding All the Time': Women's Temporal Dilemmas around Breastfeeding in Hospital / Fiona Dykes
11. Living with 'Uncertainty': Women's Experience of Breastfeeding in the Current Japanese Social Context / Naoko Hashimoto.