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

Book by Kathleen Doherty Turkel; Bergin & Garvey, 1995

Subjects:

Birthing Centers--United States--Case Studies, Childbirth--Political Aspects--United States, Childbirth--Social Aspects--United States

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...after the birth. Most hospitals offer childbirth education classes, and many require...socialized through hospital-based childbirth education classes as people to interact...Technologization has increased along with childbirth education which completely prepares...
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"Race" and Childbirth

Book by Savita Katbamna; Open University Press, 2000

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Bangladeshis--Medical Care--Great Britain, Childbirth--Great Britain--Cross-Cultural Studies, Gujaratis (Indic People)--Medical Care--Great Britain, Maternal Health Services--Great Britain, Prenatal Care--Great Britain--Cross-Cultural Studies

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...delivery and also that the hospitalization of childbirth has contributed to the reduction in maternal...Implicit in the medicalization of childbirth is the assumption that preg- nancy and childbirth are potentially abnormal and hence medical...
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This Giving Birth: Pregnancy and Childbirth in American Women's Writing

Book by Julie Tharp, Susan Maccallum-Whitcomb; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000

Subjects:

American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Childbirth In Literature, Mother And Child In Literature, Motherhood In Literature, Pregnancy In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...For example, although pregnancy and childbirth have long been regarded as instinctive...important to differentiate pregnancy and childbirth from the activity of child care, not...child up for adoption, but also because childbirth is, to some extent, an instinctive...
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Maternal Impressions: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Literature and Theory

Book by Cristina Mazzoni; Cornell University Press, 2002

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Childbirth--Folklore, Maternal-Fetal Exchange, Pregnancy, Pregnancy In Literature, Pregnancy--Folklore, Pregnancy--Psychological Aspects, Pregnancy--Social Aspects

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...book Womens Ways off Knowing , selected childbirth as the most important learning experience...for health but for his wife to die in childbirth so that he may inherit her fortune...healthy second child? Is the safety of childbirth only a matter of life and death? And...
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Birth Alternatives: How Women Select Childbirth Care

Book by Sandra Howell-White; Greenwood Press, 1999

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Childbirth--Popular Works, Midwives--Popular Works, Natural Childbirth--Popular Works, Pregnancy--Popular Works

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...its use, but also an affirmation that childbirth is "risky" and in need of medical...departure of midwives from the practice of childbirth. Although most physicians were male...desire to gain control over birth changed childbirth practices Arney, 1982; Wertz and Wertz...

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Journal Articles on: childbirth

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Women's Prayers in Childbirth in Sixteenth Century England

Journal article by Charlotte F. Otten; Women and Language, Vol. 16, 1993

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Childbirth--Religious aspects, Prayers--16th century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Womens prayers in childbirth in sixteenth century England. by...pregnant women, the approaching time of childbirth held surreal terrors. Women feared...could not participate in the drama of childbirth, even though the traditional male...
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An Exploration of Men's Experience and Role at Childbirth

Journal article by Martin P. Johnson; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 10, 2002

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Childbirth--Social aspects, Fatherhood--Analysis, Interpersonal relations--Analysis, Men's studies--Analysis

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...exploration of mens experience and role at childbirth. by Martin P. Johnson The attendance...being "allowed" to participate in childbirth during this transition period was that...partner became the established norm at childbirth in the United Kingdom. It is estimated...
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Case Studies in Dual Classification as Process: Childbirth, Headhunting and Circumcision in West Timor

Journal article by Andrew Mcwilliam; Oceania, Vol. 65, 1994

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Childbirth--Social aspects, Circumcision--Social aspects, Head-hunters--Social aspects, Indigenous peoples--Indonesia, Social classes--Research

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...in dual classification as process: childbirth, headhunting and circumcision in West...on three social institutions namely, childbirth and headhunting rituals as well as male...model of rites de passage (1960), childbirth, headhunting and circumcision ritual...
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The Impact of Child and Maternal Health Indicators on Female Labor Force Participation after Childbirth: Evidence for Germany

Journal article by C. Katharina Spiess, Annalena Dunkelberg; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 40, 2009

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Child health--Influence, Childbirth--Research, Children--Health aspects, Children--Influence, Delivery (Childbirth)--Research, Labor force--Demographic aspects, Labor force--Health aspects, Labor supply--Demographic aspects, Labor supply--Health aspects, Mothers--Health aspects, Mothers--Influence

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...Female Labor Force Participation after Childbirth: Evidence for Germany. by C. Katharina...physical and mental health risks at childbirth and increased stress in everyday life...female labor force participation after childbirth has gained attention due to the significant...
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Captivity, Childbirth, and the Civil War in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance"

Journal article by Theresa Strouth Gaul; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 19, 2002

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Childbirth--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Circumstance (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rape--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Short stories--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spofford, Harriet Prescott--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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Captivity, Childbirth, and the Civil War in Harriet Prescott...while in the tree. By uncovering the childbirth imagery in "Circumstance," I explore...motherhood--and more particularly, childbirth--has been suppressed in the literature...

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Magazine Articles on: childbirth

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In Pain and Sorrow: Childbirth, Incarnation, and the Suffering of Women

Magazine article by Colleen Carpenter Cullinan; Cross Currents, Vol. 58, Spring 2008

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Childbirth--Health aspects, Childbirth--Religious aspects, Delivery (Childbirth)--Health aspects, Delivery (Childbirth)--Religious aspects, Fistula, Vaginal--Personal narratives, Fistula, Vaginal--Religious aspects, Incarnation--Analysis, Vaginal fistula--Personal narratives, Vaginal fistula--Religious aspects, Women--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

In Pain and Sorrow: Childbirth, Incarnation, and the Suffering...women and suffering (especially in childbirth) carries us straight back to Eve...have been devastated by fistula. Childbirth in Christian tradition Before specifically...
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Mothers Betrayed: Every Year Half a Million Women Die in Childbirth, Deaths Easily Prevented with Today's Medical Advances. Sarah Brown, Wife of the Prime Minister, Makes an Urgent Plea to the World's Rich Countries, Including Britain, to Fulfil This Important Millennium Development Goal Commitment

Magazine article by Sarah Brown; New Statesman, Vol. 136, December 10, 2007

Subjects:

Childbirth--Risk factors, Death--Causes of, Delivery (Childbirth)--Risk factors, Mothers--Death of, Mothers--Health aspects, Women's health, Women--Health aspects

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...Every Year Half a Million Women Die in Childbirth, Deaths Easily Prevented with Todays...hospital each year, the mother had died in childbirth. The causes of death varied from bleeding...same reasons, the death of a mother in childbirth was once a common hazard, a fixture...
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Self-Confidence Key to Easier Childbirth

Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 130, October 2001

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Childbirth--Case studies, Delivery (Childbirth)--Case studies, Labor (Obstetrics)--Case studies, Lowe, Nancy--Research, Self confidence--Methods, Self-confidence--Methods

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Self-Confidence Key to Easier Childbirth. Pregnant womens fears of childbirth may play a role in how they will handle labor...would make labor more bearable. "Most women fear childbirth to some extent," Lowe says. "Fear of the unknown...
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'Natural' Childbirth

Magazine article by Benjamin Radford; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 30, March 2006

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Natural childbirth--Analysis, Women--Health aspects, Women--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Natural Childbirth. by Benjamin Radford Q: Whats behind...hospitals, and medication during childbirth? --L. Capps A: In a culture that...good, safe, or healthy." Natural childbirth is supposed to benefit both mother...
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Study: Unnecessary Interventions Raise Cost of Childbirth

Magazine article by Chris Pollock; Mothering, January 2009

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Childbirth & labor, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Risk factors

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...Unnecessary Interventions Raise Cost of Childbirth by Chris Pollock Six of the 15 procedures...performed in hospitals are related to childbirth: induced labor, epidural, Cesarean...Corry, released by the nonprofit Childbirth Connection, the Reforming States Group...

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Newspaper Articles on: childbirth

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Childbirth Deaths Increase in U.S

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 27, 2008

Subjects:

Childbirth, Delivery (Childbirth)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Childbirth Deaths Increase in U.S. Byline...the shy professors new wife dies in childbirth. In one horrible moment, his true...beloved school and students. Dying in childbirth is a subject that always affects me...
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Natural Childbirth Techniques 'Make No Difference' to Women

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 27, 2009

Subjects:

Childbirth--Methods, Delivery (Childbirth)--Methods, Women--Methods

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Natural Childbirth Techniques Make No Difference to Women...suggests that parents experience of childbirth is affected more by their personality...were provided with information about childbirth and parenting, modelled on the standard...
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MY DRUG-FREE CHILDBIRTH; Mind over Labour Currently One Woman in Five Opts for an Epidural as a Means of Pain-Free Childbirth. but the Royal College of Midwives Believes This Figure Is Too High and Is Proposing to Charge for Them. Forty per Cent of Women Who Have Epidurals Require Further Intervention, Such as Forceps or Ventouse. YOU Columnist Alice King Describes Her Drug-Free Birth Alternative

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 9, 2006

Subjects:

Childbirth, Delivery (Childbirth)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MY DRUG-FREE CHILDBIRTH; Mind over Labour Currently One Woman...Epidural as a Means of Pain-Free Childbirth. but the Royal College of Midwives...author of Visualizations for an Easier Childbirth, describes it as a method of translating...
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Instructor Pushes Natural Delivery Presentation Says Childbirth a Team Effort - and You're a Coach

Newspaper article by Nancy Gier; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 15, 2006

Subjects:

Childbirth, Delivery (Childbirth)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Pushes Natural Delivery Presentation Says Childbirth a Team Effort - and Youre a Coach...for complications during pregnancy and childbirth, but she wants to try having a vaginal...guidance and emotional support during childbirth but is not a midwife. Upham also knows...
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Natural Childbirth Techniques 'Make No Difference' to Mothers

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 27, 2009

Subjects:

Childbirth--Methods, Delivery (Childbirth)--Methods

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Natural Childbirth Techniques Make No Difference to Mothers...suggests that parents experience of childbirth is affected more by their personality...the groups in the satisfaction of the childbirth experience or postnatal parental stress...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: childbirth

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Childbirth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

CHILDBIRTH see birth . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Natural Childbirth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

NATURAL CHILDBIRTH see birth . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Birth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...children. Methods of Analgesia The pain of childbirth can be relieved with a variety of analgesic...also been used experimentally. Natural Childbirth In recent years so-called natural childbirth has come into wide use; the advantages...
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Obstetrics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...treatment of women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth (see birth ), and the time after childbirth. Obstetricians work to ensure that pregnancy...cervical dilation. The care of women during childbirth was originally in the hands of women...
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Oxytocin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...elicit the release of oxytocin include childbirth, suckling, and coitus; the uterine...contractions that result may facilitate either childbirth or the ascent of spermatozoa through...occurs only in females immediately after childbirth. The role of oxytocin in males is unknown...

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