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  • Midwives, Society and Childbirthby Hilary Marland; Anne Marie Rafferty

    Routledge 1997; US$ 136.00

    Questioning for the first time many conventional historical assumptions, this book is fundamental to a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in 20th century. more...

  • Birth By Designby Raymond De Vries; Cecilia Benoit; Edwin van Teijlingen; Sirpa Wrede

    Routledge 2001; US$ 49.95

    This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the US, Canada, and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. A groundbreaking work which gives a truly international understanding. more...

  • Prenatal Careby Marie C. McCormick; Joanna E. Siegel

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 122.00

    This book evaluates the effectiveness of prenatal care interventions and provides a framework for improving prenatal care that looks beyond the limited perspective of immediate neonatal outcomes. This book is an important resource for maternal and child health professionals, policy makers and health care managers. more...

  • The Art of Midwiferyby Hilary Marland

    Routledge 1994; US$ 43.95

    Drawing on a vast range of archival material from six countries, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image. more...

  • ABC of Antenatal Careby Geoffrey Chamberlain; Margery Morgan

    Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2002; US$ 31.95

    This edition has been thoroughly updated and revised with new photographs and illustrations, and addresses some of the current most controversial issues such as the role of the midwife and GP, the need for decentralization of management and home births and screening. more...

  • The Midwife's Labour And Birth Handbookby Chapman

    Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2003; US$ 40.95

    A quick reference guide to assist midwives in providing effective care in every conceivable birth situation. It will assist student and practising midwives in providing safe, research-based intrapartum care. more...

  • A Pocket Guide for Student Midwivesby Stella McKay-Moffat; Pamela Lee

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2006; US$ 55.99

    This book is written with both degree and diploma student midwives in mind. It is split into two sections, each alphabetical.  The first section contains some of the language of midwifery: terms, abbreviations and definitions. The second section contains common conditions, procedures, emergency situations, and supporting information. Each topic includes further factors that involve recognition, prevention, and actions to take in an emergency situation that may be in the form of flow/action charts. The procedures that are included have an overview of the 'how to', (frequently including the preparation needed); and the 'why', supported by research or evidence, and Midwives’ rules and standards (NMC 2004b) and The NMC code of professional... more...

  • Mainstreaming Midwivesby Robbie Davis-Floyd

    CRC Press 2006; US$ 33.95

    Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry certifications, the Certified Midwife and the Certified Professional Midwife, and examine the history, purposes, complexities, and the political strife that has characterized the evolution of midwifery in America. Including detailed case studies, the book looks at the efforts of direct-entry midwives to achieve legalization and licensure in seven states: New York, Florida, Michigan, Iowa, Virginia, Colorado, and Massachusetts with varying degrees of success. It studies core issues which produce problems in mainstreaming midwives, including the tensions... more...

  • Prenatal Assessment of Multiple Pregnancyby Isaac Blickstein; Louis G. Keith

    Informa Healthcare 2007; US$ 220.00

    Following on from the success of their previous standard textbook on Multiple Pregnancy, the authors have refocused their attention on prenatal assessment in multiple pregnancy and come up with condensed and revised material in a free-standing text. Multiple pregnancies are associated with higher levels of morbidity and fetal distress, and so effective and rapid diagnosis of problems is paramount. Those clinicians who would not have a practical application for all the aspects covered comprehensively in the earlier work will find this volume a clinically orientated and extremely useful addition to their working library. more...

  • Becoming a Midwife in the 21st Centuryby Cathy Hamilton; Ian Peate

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 58.99

    The NMC have produced standards of proficiency for pre registration midwifery education and those standards have been written in an “academic” language, for higher education institutions. Each student prior to being admitted to the profession must have achieved the proficiencies stated in the NMC publication. The purpose of this book is to provide students with material related to the standards of midwifery education. The students will be able to use the contents of this text and relate it to their own approved programme of midwifery study, as their programme of study would have had to comply with NMC’s requirements. It will help student midwives appreciate how their own programmes have been designed, and why they are required... more...