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    Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time / edited by Christine McCourt.

    • Title:Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time / edited by Christine McCourt.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:McCourt, Christine, 1960-
    • Published/Created:New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Childbirth.
      Midwifery.
      Public health.
      Time--Sociological aspects.
    • Description:xviii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; v. 17.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:184545586X (hardback : alk. paper)
      9781845455866 (hardback : alk. paper)
    • 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.
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