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A Pleasing Birth : Midwives And Maternity Care
Women have long searched for a pleasing birth - a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Women have long searched for a pleasing birth - a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: every other modern nation regards birth as too risky to occur outside a hospital setting. In ex. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781439907009 |