The New Midwifery: Science and Sensitivity in Practice

The New Midwifery: Science and Sensitivity in Practice
ISBN-10
0443055726
ISBN-13
9780443055720
Category
Medical
Pages
418
Language
English
Published
2000
Authors
Lesley Page, Patricia Percival

Description

Being a midwife today requires not only good clinical skills but also a broad understanding of the social and emotional adaptation to birth that a woman experiences. A midwife must be clinically skilled and able to bring "woman-centered" practice to life. This book explores all the issues that a midwife may encounter in applying her practical knowledge with sensitivity towards every individual woman's care, before, during, and after birth. Building on the changes that have occurred in midwifery in the past decade, THE NEW MIDWIFERY describes approaches to practice based on experience and supported by theory and biological sciences. This text is designed to help midwives build sensitive and supportive relationships, develop openness to individual needs, and be able to use science as a basis for practice.

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