Supportive Care and Midwifery

Supportive Care and Midwifery explores the increasingly powerful movement to utilize support during childbearing. Support is examined at various levels including personal interaction, clinical practice and management, and policy making. The book critically analyses the current situation from an international perspective and considers support by and for those involved in maternity care.
The book reflects Rosemary Mander’s active research orientation as well as academic background. The research base is crucial throughout, and is most evident in the author’s account of her own study. The origins, uses and misuses of research evidence emerge as fundamental; the political implications of these phenomena also become apparent as the argument develops. The author concludes by looking to the future and anticipating the development of support for the childbearing woman.
This text can be used to address discrete and specific support–related issues, as well as being read in its entirety to follow the unfolding of a powerful and persuasive argument.
Key features:

Emphasises evidence–based practice
Critically analyses the phenomena
Focuses on the woman’s experience
Accessible and reader–friendly
Supportive Care and Midwifery is essential reading for midwives in training and for post–registration students on undergraduate programmes. It is also a valuable text for post–graduate students, practicing midwives, service providers and health visitors.

Spis treści:
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Making sense of support; Systems of health care and maternity care provision; The provision of support during childbearing; Supportive midwifery care; Support in labour; The doula; Support for the carer; Conclusion; References; Index

Nota biograficzna:
Rosemary Mander is a Reader at The University of E dinburgh

Okładka tylna:

Supportive Care and Midwifery explores the increasingly powerful movement to utilize support during childbearing. Support is examined at various levels including personal interaction, clinical practice and management, and policy making. The book critically analyses the current situation from an international perspective and considers support by and for those involved in maternity care.
The book reflects Rosemary Mander’s active research orientation as well as academic background. The research base is crucial throughout, and is most evident in the author’s account of her own study. The origins, uses and misuses of research evidence emerge as fundamental; the political implications of these phenomena also become apparent as the argument develops. The author concludes by looking to the future and anticipating the development of support for the childbearing woman.
This text can be used to address discrete and specific support–related issues, as well as being read in its entirety to follow the unfolding of a powerful and persuasive argument.
Key features:

Emphasises evidence–based practice
Critically analyses the phenomena
Focuses on the woman’s experience
Accessible and reader–friendly
Supportive Care and Midwifery is essential reading for midwives in training and for post–registration students on undergraduate programmes. It is also a valuable text for post–graduate students, practicing midwives, service providers and health visitors.