Women, Power, and Childbirth

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Women, Power, and Childbirth A Case Study of a Free-Standing Birth Center

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Kathleen Doherty Turkel

Book Code: H317

ISBN: 0-89789-317-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-317-6

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184 pages

Bergin & Garvey

Publication: 11/30/1995

List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: Based on her 12 year study of a free-standing birth center, Turkel analyzes the medical model of childbirth in contrast to the midwifery model. In the medical model of birth, women are defined as patients and birth takes place in hospitals where women have little, if any, control over their experience. The midwifery model views birth as a healthy process where midwives act as teachers and guides for women during pregnancy and birth, helping women and their families to shape and define their experience to meet their needs and expectations. Under existing legal and cultural circumstances, free-standing birth centers face a dilemma. They must continually accomodate the medical model while trying to maintain the midwifery model and give women an option to home birth or to hospital birth.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Technocratic Ideology and the Medical Marginalization of Motherhood and Birth
The Medical Model
The Midwifery Approach to Birth
Free-Standing Birth Centers
Case Study: The Founding of a Free-Standing Birth Center
The Operation of the Birth Center
The Birth Center and the Medical Model: Accommodation and Resistance
Reappropriating Birth
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 95-12839

LCC Class: RG500

Dewey Class: 362


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