Overview
- Uses epidural analgesia as the lens for analysis of the current ontological and epistemological debates in maternity care
- Examines key sociological and philosophical debates in current maternity care practice and provision
- Tracks historical developments in the field as the background to the wider debates to be addressed in the text
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Midwifery
- Medicalised Birth
- Reproductive Rights
- Women's Studies
- Nursing studies
- birth intervention
- Epidural analgesia
- Birth Culture
- evidence-based medicine
- critical medical anthropology (CMA)
- midwifery technologies
- Risk culture in hospitals
- hospital birth culture
- institutionalisation of birth
- Feminism and birth
- maternal and child health
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Lois McKellar is the Program Director for the Bachelor of Midwifery at the University of South Australia and an advocate for improving the well-being of women and their families through collaborative research and education.
Jan Pincombe is an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia and Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives. She is one of 4 editors for the first midwifery textbook in Australia and New Zealand for practicing and student midwives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards the Humanisation of Birth
Book Subtitle: A study of epidural analgesia and hospital birth culture
Authors: Elizabeth Newnham, Lois McKellar, Jan Pincombe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69962-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69961-5Published: 22 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88868-2Published: 10 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69962-2Published: 13 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 266
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Maternal and Child Health, Ethnography, Women's Studies