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Turkel, K: Women, Power, and Childbirth
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9780897893176
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425 g
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235x157x15 mm
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Kathleen D. Turkel
Based on her 12 year study of a free-standing birth center, Turkel analyzes the medical model of childbirth in contrast to the midwifery model. In the medical model of birth, women are defined as patients and birth takes place in hospitals where women have little, if any, control over their experience. The midwifery model views birth as a healthy process where midwives act as teachers and guides for women during pregnancy and birth, helping women and their families to shape and define their experience to meet their needs and expectations. Under existing legal and cultural circumstances, free-standing birth centers face a dilemma. They must continually accomodate the medical model while trying to maintain the midwifery model and give women an option to home birth or to hospital birth.
Describes the establishment and operation of an autonomous birth center by a nurse-midwife who supports the belief that childbirth is a healthy process not needy of hospitalization according to the medical model.
IntroductionTechnocratic Ideology and the Medical Marginalization of Motherhood and BirthThe Medical ModelThe Midwifery Approach to BirthFree-Standing Birth CentersCase Study: The Founding of a Free-Standing Birth CenterThe Operation of the Birth CenterThe Birth Center and the Medical Model: Accommodation and ResistanceReappropriating BirthBibliographyIndex