A comprehensive guide to labour care, including the basic physiology of birth, pain relief and emergencies.

Greatly expanded, revised and updated, with an entirely new chapter on disability, The Social Context of Birth, Second Edition provides an essential understanding of how social issues affect midwives, the birth process and motherhood.

Mavis Kirkham brings together a team of authors to examine the relationship on which maternity care is based. Examining this relationship from a variety of different perspectives brings insights which should help midwives to relate better to mothers, thus enhancing the quality of their care.

This innovative text considers emotion work across maternity care and infertility services both within the UK and internationally. Leading authors draw together key research, explaining the field's theoretical underpinnings and enhancing the understanding of emotions and how they are managed, experienced and negotiated in clinical settings.

Offers a visual and textual overview of the stages of pregnancy and birth. This chart illustrates the anatomy of mammary glands and the infant within the mother. It includes illustrations showing fertilization and implantation and trimester and fetal development. It also discusses genetic screening and hormonal changes during pregnancy.

Part of a series which is built around four main topic areas relevant to midwifery: pregnancy, labour/birth, postnatal and stories/reflection, this title offers a range of topic areas within the 'focus on' sections covering: 'the birthing environment', 'women, midwives and risk', 'holistic health' and 'working/international stories'.

This full-colour handbook is completely up-to-date and offers highly practical solutions for everyday practice. It includes physiology, explanations of conditions and principles of care for pre-conception, pregnancy, labour, delivery and the postnatal period.

Meant for midwives, this book studies anatomy and physiology as applied to obstetrics and gynaecology. The text looks at the physiology of pregnancy, and is illustrated. The third edition contains color illustrations, and line sketches for student revision.

An introduction to the sociological study of midwifery. It argues that the conception of midwifery must encompass a sociological perspective, and that the trend of medicalization of midwifery is crucial to understanding the profession's historical, present and future status.

Third in the Midwifery: Best Practice series, this volume includes material on pregnancy, labour and birth, to provide a review of key issues within midwifery. It features several additional articles on selected topics. It is useful for midwifery courses.

Offers information that a midwife can use, knowing that the law is there to protect her and her clients. This text includes a chapter on the laws relating to teenage pregnancy. It considers the midwife's legal position looking at issues such as patient confidentiality, treatment of minors and conscientious objection.

An edition of Acupuncture in Midwifery .

Midwifery is used to describe a number of different types of health practitioners, other than doctors, who provide prenatal care to expecting mothers, attend the birth of the infant and provide postnatal care to the mother and infant. This book brings together research on this field.

Discusses topics such as: dilemmas of management versus supervision; bullying and the culture of blame; disciplinary versus supportive roles; the impact of clinical governance; innovation in supervision; the new ENB distance learning package; the University of Hertfordshire Masters Course; and personal stories and case studies.

Offers an introduction to human sexuality in the context of health and social care practice. Drawing on research in the social sciences, cultural studies and social policy, this book presents a summary of theories of sexual orientation, discusses the growth of contemporary lesbian and gay communities, and reveals the prejudice and discrimination.

Full title: 'Managing Childbirth Emergencies in Community Settings'.

Offers a visual and textual overview of the stages of pregnancy and birth. This book illustrates the anatomy of mammary glands and the infant within the mother. It includes illustrations showing fertilization and implantation and trimester and fetal development. It discusses genetic screening and hormonal changes during pregnancy.

A midwife's guide to pregnancy and birth which shows compassionate sensitivity to women's needs in pregnancy and childbirth.

Midwives and healthcare providers are grappling with the issue of rising intervention rates in childbirth and trying to identify ways to reverse the trend. Intervention in childbirth has long-term consequences for women and their children. This work provides evidence-based ideas for restructuring the birth territory to facilitate normal birth.