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Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time / edited by Christine McCourt
- Published
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators
- McCourt, Christine, 1960-
- Series
- Contents
- From tradition to modernity : time and childbirth in historical perspective / Christine McCourt and Fiona Dykes -- Cosmologies, concepts and theories : time and childbirth in cross-cultural perspective / Christine McCourt -- Counting time in pregnancy and labour / Soo Downe and Fiona Dykes -- The progress of labour : orderly chaos? / Clare Winter and Margie Duff -- Time and midwifery practice / Trudy Stevens -- Waiting on birth : management of time and place in a birth centre / Denis Walsh -- Management of time in aboriginal and northern midwifery settings / Gisela Becker -- Narrative time : stories, childbirth and midwifery / Ólöf Ásta Ólafsdóttir and Mavis Kirkham -- How long have I got? : time in labour : themes from women's birth stories / Christine McCourt -- Feeding all the time : women's temporal dilemmas around breastfeeding in hospital / Fiona Dykes -- Living with uncertainty : women's experience of breastfeeding in the current Japanese social context / Naoko Hashimoto.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1845452941
9781845452940 (pbk.)
9781845455866 (hbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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