Midwifery and Childbirth in America - Couverture souple

Rooks, Judith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566397111 ISBN 13 : 9781566397117

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

The medical model of childbirth emphasizes the pathological potential of pregnancy and birth, while an alternative model focuses on the normalcy of pregnancy and its potential for health. This is an account of the forces that intersect over the issue of childbirth that explains the conceptual and philosophical differences between these models.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Judith Pence Rooks, a past president of the American College of Nurse Midwives, has taught in a school of nursing, a school of medicine, and a midwifery school associated with the historic Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky. She was the Principle Investigator for the National Birth Center Study, which was conducted at the Columbia University School of Public Health. She reported the results in the New England Journal of Medicine. She has worked as an epidemiologist at the U.S. Center for Disease Control and an "expert" in the Office of the Surgeon General. In 1993 she received the Martha May Eliot Award for exceptional service to mothers and children from the American Public Health Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566397111
• ISBN 13: 9781566397117
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 548
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