Home birth the politics of difficult choices

Home birth the politics of difficult choices

The rhetoric of choice is much used in UK health policy and home birth is one of the three options that women are entitled to choose between when deciding where to have their baby. However, many women making this choice run into considerable opposition from the maternity service. Home Birth: the po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nolan, Mary 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge 2011
©2011
Subjects:
Home Childbirth
Health Policy
Informed Consent
Patient Compliance
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Table of Contents:
  • Policy? Does it mean what it says?
  • Choosing home birth against medical advice
  • Fear and risk
  • Choice, bullying, and coercion
  • Communication and language
  • Avoidance, subversion, and confrontation
  • Stress in pregnancy and birth
  • Men's experience of home birth against medical advice
  • Free birth : the end of the choice continuum
  • Advocacy, empathy, and autonomy
  • The dialectic between possibilities and limits.

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