Birth territory and midwifery guardianship :

Birth territory and midwifery guardianship : theory for practice, education, and research / edited by Kathleen Fahy, Maralyn Foureur, Carolyn Hastie. - Edinburgh ; New York : Books for Midwives, 2008. - xiv, 178 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Power and the social construction of birth territory / Kathleen Fahy -- Theorising birth territory / Kathleen Fahy -- Midwifery guardianship : reclaiming the sacred in birth / Kathleen Fahy and Carolyn Hastie -- Territories of the self and spiritual practices during childbirth / Jennifer A. Parratt -- Creating birth space to enable undisturbed birth / Maralyn Foureur -- The spiritual and emotional territory of the unborn and newborn baby / Carolyn Hastie -- Mindbodyspirit architecture : creating birth space / Bianca Lepori, Maralyn Foureur and Carolyn Hastie -- Being a midwife to midwifery : transforming midwifery services / Lesley Page -- Birth territory : the besieged territory of the obstetrician / Michel Odent -- From ideal to real : the interface between birth territory and the maternity service organization / Pat Brodie and Nicky Leap.

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Midwifery
Power, Psychological
Pregnancy--psychology
Professional Autonomy

WQ 160 / B6195 2008