Birthing Outside the System: The Canary in the Coal Mine (Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery)

By: Hannah Dahlen and Bashi Hazard and Virginia Schmied

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Synopsis: This book investigates why women choose ‘birth outside the system’ and makes connections between women’s right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems. Choosing to birth at home can force women out of mainstream maternity care, despite research supporting the safety of this option for low-risk women attended by midwives. When homebirth is not supported as a birthplace option, women will defy mainstream medical advice, and if a midwife is not available, choose either an unregulated careprovider or birth without assistance. This book examines the circumstances and drivers behind why women nevertheless choose homebirth by bringing legal and ethical perspectives together with the latest research on high-risk homebirth (breech and twin births), freebirth, birth with unregulated careproviders and the oppression of midwives who support unorthodox choices. Stories from women who have pursued alternatives in Australia, Europe, Russia, the UK, the US, Canada, the Middle East and India are woven through the research. Insight and practical strategies are shared by doctors, midwives, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists on how to manage the tension between professional obligations and women’s right to bodily autonomy. This book, the first of its kind, is an important contribution to considerations of place of birth and human rights in childbirth.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 460 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780429953156
Related ISBNs:: 9780429489853, 9780367506605, 9780367506605, 9781138592704, 9781138592704
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/21/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Hannah Dahlen
Edited by:: Bashi Kumar-Hazard
Edited by:: Virginia Schmied