A Pleasing Birth: Midwives and Maternity Care in the Netherlands

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Release: 2005-01-30
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1592131034
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 exploring the historical, social, and cultural customs responsible for the Dutch way of birth, Raymond De Vries opens a new page in the analysis of health care and explains why maternal care reform has proven so difficult in the U.S. He carefully documents the way culture shapes the organization of health care, showing how the unique maternity care system of the Netherlands is the result of Dutch ideas ab Download A Pleasing Birth for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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