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Silent Knife
Discusses the risks of cesarean sections to the mother and infant and suggests methods for avoiding unnecessary cesarean births.
Compassionate Souls
In this title, educator, parent and activist JoAnn Farb offers practical examples of how to bring up your children to honour your values and not those dictated by corporations. She presents information on giving your children the best start in life.
Reclaiming Our Health
The author calls for a revolution in health care, criticizing its hostility to alternative medicine and its bias against women.
Natural Family Living
From preconception to adolescence to creating a healthy family lifestyle, this guide covers health during pregnancy and natural childbirth; healthful eating for the whole family; uses and abuses of TV, computers and video games; discipline issues; and more.
Trials of Labour
Brian Burtch looks at contemporary midwifery practice in Canada and the role of the state in shaping and defining that practice. He examines the qualifications of midwives and discusses their legal status, the legacy of competition between nurses and midwives, and the impact of legal actions concerning midwifery practice. He emphasizes the pivotal role of the state in supporting midwifery and discusses the difficulties created by increasing interest in midwifery among expectant women and the social forces that inhibit the establishment of a self-governing midwifery profession.
Our Lives Before the Law
According to Judith Baer, feminist legal scholarship today does not effectively address the harsh realities of women's lives. Feminists have marginalized themselves, she argues, by withdrawing from mainstream intellectual discourse. In Our Lives Before the Law, Baer thus presents the framework for a new feminist jurisprudence--one that would return feminism to relevance by connecting it in fresh and creative ways with liberalism. Baer starts from the traditional feminist premise that the legal system has a male bias and must do more to help women combat violence and overcome political, economic, and social disadvantages. She argues, however, that feminist scholarship has over-corrected for t...
Christian Midwifery
The book is about Midwifery assistance, principally a home or birth center setting, but also in a hospital. The focus is on spiritual preparation for mothers and fathers, as well as conducting birth in a spiritual atmosphere during and following delivery. Contains nutritional advice for pregnant women as well as post-partum for mother and baby. Contains breastfeeding tips and advice. All anatomical and medical details are given, including necessary midwifery supplies, and preparations, both pre and post delivery. Many actual situations are described from the author's many years of experience. A number of first-person testimonials and birth experience descriptions are also given by mothers giving birth naturally, and consciously, with the assistance of a midwife. Includes many Bible quotations and references. Ideal for parents and for midwives seeing a spiritual approach to childbearing.
Deliver Me from Pain
As American women make decisions about anesthesia today, Deliver Me from Pain offers them insight into how women made this choice in the past and why each generation of mothers has made dramatically different decisions.
Where Medicine Fails
This fifth edition of Where Medicine Fails, like previous editions, argues for a broader definition of society's responsibilities to the ill than is commonly perceived to be the case. The authors examine the moral and economic implications of medical technology, especially in regard to fetal tissue transplant, cancer survival, childbirth, and dying, and provide a thoughtful assessment of the issues and challenges facing American hospitals. Seventeen chapters are new to this edition. The aim of this volume is to encourage serious examination of the current structure of health services and of the complicated facets of health care reform.
Birth
A journalist “explores the way childbirth has changed, from pre-history to the present” in this “fascinating, funny and occasionally shocking” historical survey (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). From midwives to the epidural and beyond, mother and former Boston Globe editor Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how we handle the process of childbirth. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth? Touching on peculiar practices from across the globe as well as the very different experiences of mothers in her own family, Cassidy explores the physical, anthropological,...
