Informed choice in maternity care / edited by Mavis Kirkham.

Date:
2004
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Maternity care

Description

"Factors constraining women's choices are examined from a wide range of perspectives, including service users, midwives, obstetricians and social scientists, to highlight the social, cultural and clinical factors influencing decision making."-- Back cover.

Publication/Creation

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Physical description

xviii, 302 pages : black and white illustrations, charts ; 24 cm

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Edition

2nd ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Why can't women just say no? And does it really matter? -- 2. Informed choice in maternity care -- 3. How midwives used protective steeringto facilitate informed choice in pregnancy -- 4. Can leaflets deliver informed choice? -- 5. Is there a difference between a free gift and a planned purchase? The use of evidence-based leaflets in maternity care -- 6. The culture of the maternity services in Wales and England as a barrier to informed choice -- 7. Information used by pregnanat women, and their understanding and use of evidence-based Informed Choice leaflets -- 8. Integrating MIDIRS Informed Choice leaflets into a maternity service -- 9. Should doctors perform Caesarean for 'informed choice' -- 10. Negotiating elective Caesarean section: an obstetric team perspective -- 11. Birth experience of South Asian Muslim women: marginalized choice within the maternity services -- 12. The misleading myth of choice: the continuing oppression of women in childbirth -- 13. Choice and bureaucracy.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: Family of Sheila Kitzinger.

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  • 033399843X
  • 9780333998434