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Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Midwifery > General

Sellers' Midwifery (Paperback, 3rd edition): Pauline McCall Sellers Sellers' Midwifery (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Pauline McCall Sellers; Edited by Joan Dippenaar, Dicky Da Serra 6
R758 R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Save R91 (12%) In Stock

Sellers’ Midwifery 3e has been updated and aligned with international and national public health strategies to improve maternal and antenatal care as a sustainable development goal.

This updated edition includes recent sources and references after each section. Comprehensive student and lecturer support material is available to assist prescribing lecturers with lesson preparation and to provide the student with opportunities for self-study.

Health Promotion in Midwifery : Principles and practice (Paperback, 2nd edition): Jan Bowden, Vicky Manning Health Promotion in Midwifery : Principles and practice (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Jan Bowden, Vicky Manning
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Health Promotion in Midwifery explores the principles of health promotion within the practical context of midwifery. It clearly outlines and discusses the midwife's role in health promotion, making it essential reading for all student and practising midwives, as well as clinical practitioners. Emphasizing the link between theory and practice, the second edition incorporates chapters on domestic violence, sexual health, breastfeeding, and mental health promotion. Text boxes make the text accessible and user-friendly and case studies and summaries put the material in practical context. Additional readings encourage readers to further research and reflection on their own practice. Throughout the book, the importance of the role of the midwife in health promotion is emphasized. This second edition brings together contributions from a variety of experienced practitioners.

Cnor Exam Secrets Study Guide (Paperback): Cnor Exam Secrets Test Prep Cnor Exam Secrets Study Guide (Paperback)
Cnor Exam Secrets Test Prep
R2,884 R2,158 Discovery Miles 21 580 Save R726 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A textbook for midwives (Paperback, Reissue): A.G.W. Nolte A textbook for midwives (Paperback, Reissue)
A.G.W. Nolte
R725 R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Save R56 (8%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

Covers all aspects of practical midwifery care, the emphasis being on both the physical and psychological care of the pregnant woman and her family. Intended for practising midwives, midwives in training and student nurses and been written in comprehensible language with illustrations throughout.

DELIVERED AT HOME (Paperback, International Edition): Julia Allison DELIVERED AT HOME (Paperback, International Edition)
Julia Allison; Foreword by Margaret Brain
R1,174 R1,049 Discovery Miles 10 490 Save R125 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a study of the work and life of district midwives from 1948 to 1972 in Nottingham, which was one of the last UK cities to build a central maternity unit. The author statistically examines the outcome of home births in the area, taking into account the Parliamentary Reports of 1992 and 1993 and demonstrating the safety and value to society of district midwives.

Breastfeeding And Human Lactation (Paperback, 6th Revised edition): Karen Wambach, Becky Spencer Breastfeeding And Human Lactation (Paperback, 6th Revised edition)
Karen Wambach, Becky Spencer
R3,317 Discovery Miles 33 170 In Stock

Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Sixth Edition is the ultimate reference for the latest clinical techniques and research findings that direct evidence-based clinical practice and research for lactation consultants and specialists. It contains everything a nurse, lactation consultant, midwife, women's health nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or Ob/Gyn needs to know about lactation care and science. Topics include placing breastfeeding in its historical context, workplace-related issues, anatomical and biological imperatives of lactation, the prenatal and perinatal periods and concerns during the postpartum period, the mother's health, sociocultural issues, and more vital information. With contributions from the foremost experts in the field, this leading resource contains a clear clinical focus with more than 2,000 research studies supporting the clinical recommendations found in the text. Furthermore, the updated Sixth Edition features new and additional case studies, expanded cultural content, inclusion of new regulations and guidelines, information on alternative medicine, and gender inclusive language. Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Sixth Edition is also an excellent resource to prepare for certification and practice as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (R) (IBCLC (R)). The Navigate 2 TestPrep access code included with every new print copy unlocks access to practice and simulated tests, detailed rationales, and powerful data dashboards. Standalone access to Navigate 2 TestPrep is also available (ISBN: 978-1-284-18994-0).

The Infertile Midwife - In Search of Motherhood - A Memoir (Hardcover): Sophie Martin The Infertile Midwife - In Search of Motherhood - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Sophie Martin
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

‘A vital, heartfelt read for anyone navigating the rough seas of infertility and pregnancy loss’ – Leah Hazard, author of Hard Pushed An insightful, moving memoir, capturing life working as a midwife in a busy NHS hospital at the same time as dealing with experiences of infertility, IVF and loss. As a young married couple, Sophie Martin and her husband spent years trying to conceive. They went through several rounds of IVF, at great expense, and even travelled overseas for treatment, never quite knowing whether they would one day have a family. Alongside this, Sophie was working hard at a job she loved: looking after expectant mothers and newborn babies as a midwife in a busy hospital, where the patients’ daily new additions were a constant reminder of Sophie’s own setbacks in pursuit of motherhood. The Infertile Midwife is a deeply personal, moving account of chasing something that you want so desperately. It also offers a much-needed look at how society treats infertility – from the language we use to the small talk we make – and the ways in which we can all do more to make things better for hopeful parents. With great warmth and honesty, Sophie shares her experiences of the bursts of hope and moments of great loss, but also the humour, love and joy that can be found in even the darkest places.

Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies - An Evidence-Based Approach 7e (Paperback, 7th Edition): JT Queenan Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies - An Evidence-Based Approach 7e (Paperback, 7th Edition)
JT Queenan
R2,408 Discovery Miles 24 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through seven editions, Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies has helped busy obstetricians keep pace with a constantly evolving field. Providing just-in-time content, its focus on protocols and guidelines helps organize medical thinking, avoid heuristic errors of omission and commission, and optimize maternal and fetal outcomes. As with the prior six editions, the editors have once again assembled some of the world's top obstetrical and medical experts. This seventh edition has also been expanded to include a number of new topics, including: Protocols on opioid use, misuse and addition in pregnancy and postpartum Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of aneuploidy Periconceptual genetic screening Expanded protocols on maternal valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies Protocols on arboviruses, including Zika and malaria Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies: An Evidence-Based Approach will be an essential reference for obstetricians, medical students, general practitioners and all medical professionals who are seeking the most up-to-date information and guidance on high-risk pregnancies.

An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions (Paperback): Simone C. Bacchini An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions (Paperback)
Simone C. Bacchini
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning, build and sustain interpersonal relationships, and to express identity. Provides readers with well-grounded tools that they can use to inform their daily work as well as to reflect upon their own communicative practices and – where necessary – to improve them. Features ‘discussion points’ in the form of questions, suggestions for reflection, and small analysis tasks throughout.

Latch - A Handbook for Breastfeeding with Confidence at Every Stage (Paperback): Robin Kaplan Latch - A Handbook for Breastfeeding with Confidence at Every Stage (Paperback)
Robin Kaplan; Foreword by Abby Theuring
R471 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Play in Hospitals - Real Life Perspectives (Paperback): Nicky Everett, Cath Hubbuck, Fraser Brown Play in Hospitals - Real Life Perspectives (Paperback)
Nicky Everett, Cath Hubbuck, Fraser Brown
R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Exploring how practitioners make use of play's developmental benefits and therapeutic healing properties to aid the child's health care journey, this reflective book expands and enhances the knowledge base underlying the practice of play in hospitals. The work of health play specialists and child life specialists in hospitals in the UK and around the world requires a deep level of clinical knowledge, so that preparing children for procedures can be done with skill and precision. It builds on an understanding of both child development and the impact of traumatic experiences so that children's deepest fears and biggest emotions can be faced without flinching. It also relies on an acceptance that play is the foundation of everything - the child's safest, most natural space - and from this trust, strength and resilience can grow and be nurtured. This new edited text explores the breadth, depth and skills of these trained healthcare practitioners providing play for babies, children, young people and adults, and places the power of play squarely at the centre of most clinical settings. Its starting point of the theory that underpins practice is explored and developed through a combination of reflective essays, case study chapters from the UK and around the world, and the newly emerging use of play in diverse settings. Drawing on the collective work of over 30 play specialists, child life specialists, play service managers, lecturers and researchers, this book is unique in all it offers to paediatric practitioners and settings, in training and in practice. It is an important resource for healthcare play specialists, playworkers, children's nurses, occupational therapists and more.

Phenomenology of Practice - Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing (Paperback, 2nd edition): Max Van... Phenomenology of Practice - Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Max Van Manen
R1,279 Discovery Miles 12 790 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Max van Manen offers an extensively updated edition of Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing to provide an eloquent, accessible, and detailed approach to practicing phenomenology. Phenomenology of practice refers to the meaning of doing phenomenology on experiences that are of significance to those in professional practice such as psychology, health care, education, and in contexts of ordinary living. A special feature of this update is the role of examples, anecdotes, stories, and vignettes, and the singularity of fictionalized empirical fragments in making the unknowable knowable. Accordingly, the various chapters are enriched with many intelligible examples of phenomenological essays and excursions on ordinary and extraordinary topics. These examples show that a phenomenological method can be engaged to explore virtually any lived experience or event. Max van Manen provides penetrating portrayals of depthful insights by brilliant phenomenologists. He identifies and distinguishes a variety of phenomenological orientations that are alive and current today. This book is relevant to scholars, students, and motivated readers interested in the originary meanings and methods of phenomenological human science enquiry. Max van Manen's comprehensive work is of significance to all concerned with the interrelation between being and acting, thoughtfulness and tact, in human sciences research and the phenomenology of everyday life.

Antenatal Midwifery Skills - Survival Guide (Paperback, 2nd edition): Alison Edwards Antenatal Midwifery Skills - Survival Guide (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Alison Edwards
R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This pocket-sized book, presented in an easy-to-follow format, is designed as a tool for students and professionals to carry in any setting, providing a quick reference guide to antenatal care and related anatomy and physiology. Used as a platform for wider reading, this text is an ideal reference point for any student or professional involved with the care of childbearing women.

Frontline Midwife - Finding hope in life, death and birth (Paperback): Anna Kent Frontline Midwife - Finding hope in life, death and birth (Paperback)
Anna Kent
R315 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R55 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

‘A gripping, honest and moving account of healthcare work in a war zone’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm ‘Extraordinary, profoundly moving, all-consuming . . . I haven't stopped thinking about it’ Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks ---------- This is a story of women in crisis, seen through the eyes of a remarkable midwife ‘My own suffering, my own loneliness, was a fair price to pay for the lives we’d saved. And now here I am, training to be a midwife, so that next time I can make it better.’ Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At twenty-six years old, not yet a fully-trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, she soon learned that even at home the right to a safe birth was impossible to take for granted. In Frontline Midwife, Kent shares her extraordinary experiences as a nurse, midwife and mother, illuminating the lives of women that are irreparably affected by compromised access to healthcare. This is at once an astonishing story of the realities of frontline humanitarian work, and a powerful reminder of the critical, life-giving work of nurses and doctors at home and around the world. ---------- ‘Brutally powerful . . . Totally absorbing’ Independent ‘The heart-wrenching tale of one midwife’s quest to help others – and make peace with herself’ Leah Hazard, author of Hard Pushed

Developing Your Compassion Strengths - A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners (Paperback): Mark Durkin Developing Your Compassion Strengths - A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners (Paperback)
Mark Durkin
R1,096 Discovery Miles 10 960 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This practical book suggests ways in which healthcare students and practitioners can develop their compassion strengths. Discussing what compassion is and means, it includes a new compassion strength model and a series of exercises the reader can use for reflecting on and developing their practice. A hallmark of healthcare practice is compassion, yet there is a lack of understanding as to what compassion is and how it can be developed in practice. The book begins with that challenge of defining compassion, particularly looking at healthcare contexts and making links between self-care and caring for others. It then presents a new, evidence-based holistic model that brings together key elements of compassion for self and other, along with a scale that readers can measure themselves against. Identifying eight strengths "self-care, connection, communication, competency, empathy, interpersonal skills, character and engagement" Durkin provides the theoretical background to each, accompanied with suggestions for practice and reflective activities. It ends with a selection of vignettes that readers can use to try out their strengths. Highlighting the concept of compassion strengths, and compassion as a way of being, this is an essential read for healthcare students and practitioners, whether involved in direct patient care or management.

Joy at Birth - An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry (Hardcover): Susan Crowther Joy at Birth - An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry (Hardcover)
Susan Crowther
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context. Through exploration of experiences at birth this book explores joy at birth, which is often ignored and overlooked beyond the activities that help to ensure survival. This book draws on a collection of stories of birth from mothers, birth partners, obstetricians and midwives, that demonstrate joy at birth across professional groups and in different types of births and locations with or without technological interventions. Each chapter introduces stories of joy that highlight embodied, spatial and relational meanings. Employing the Heideggerian notion of a human being, it sketches out an ontological focus that draws our gaze to the everyday taken-for-granted ways of being at birth. Based on phenomenological experiential data and rigorous interpretive analysis underpinned by seminal philosophical writings, this book calls for readers to attend to the wholeness of birth in all situations and at all births in ways not attempted before. It will be of great interest to midwives, and those working in and studying maternity, obstetrics and neonatology, as well as social and medical anthropology, sociology, cultural, organisational and clinical psychology and spirituality.

Variations in Sex Development - Medicine, Culture and Psychological Practice (Hardcover): Lih-Mei Liao Variations in Sex Development - Medicine, Culture and Psychological Practice (Hardcover)
Lih-Mei Liao
R1,475 R1,391 Discovery Miles 13 910 Save R84 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Biological variations in sex development, also known as intersex, are greatly misunderstood by the wider public. This unique book discusses psychological practice in healthcare for people and families impacted by a range of 'intersex' variations. It highlights the dilemmas facing individuals and their loved ones in the social context and discusses the physical and psychological complexities of irrevocable medical interventions to approximate social norms for bodily appearance and function. It exposes the contradictions in medical management and suggests valuable theoretical and practice tools for psychosocial care providers to navigate them. Uniquely featuring theory and research informed practice vignettes, the book explores interpersonal work on the most salient psychosocial themes, ranging from grief work with impacted caretakers to sex therapy with impacted adults. An indispensable resource for working ethically, pragmatically and creatively for a variety of healthcare specialists and those affected by variations in sex development and their families and communities.

Management of Multiple Pregnancies - A Practical Guide (Hardcover): Leanne Bricker, Julian N. Robinson, Baskaran Thilaganathan Management of Multiple Pregnancies - A Practical Guide (Hardcover)
Leanne Bricker, Julian N. Robinson, Baskaran Thilaganathan
R1,639 R1,545 Discovery Miles 15 450 Save R94 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Multiple pregnancies are associated with higher risks for both mother and babies. Women with multiple pregnancies have an increased risk of miscarriage, anemia, hypertensive disorders, haemorrhage, and postnatal illness. These pregnancies are more likely to need an operative delivery, and maternal mortality is generally 2.5 times that of singleton births. Fetuses are at increased risk for anatomic and genetic anomalies, growth abnormalities, prematurity, and several physiological problems related to monochorionicity. This book provides a much needed, up-to-date guide to the management of multiple pregnancies. Presented with a uniform approach to all chapters, information is easily navigable, evidence-based, and highly practical. Heavily illustrated, particularly with ultrasound images - the cornerstone of management of multiple pregnancies - this book will appeal to obstetricians and specialists in maternal-fetal medicine, midwives and ultrasonographers and will improve outcomes for mothers and babies.

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants (Hardcover): Zoe Rawles Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants (Hardcover)
Zoe Rawles
R5,230 Discovery Miles 52 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book covers some of the more theoretical aspects of the healthcare assistants (HCAs), and provides an accessible and "user-friendly" approach to learning some of the underpinning knowledge, skills and practical tasks that are routinely included in the job description of the HCA.

Integrating Lifestyle Medicine in Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (Paperback): James M. Rippe Integrating Lifestyle Medicine in Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (Paperback)
James M. Rippe
R1,338 Discovery Miles 13 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and around the world. Major risk factors for CVD result from poor lifestyle habits and practices, but the area of lifestyle medicine has emerged to help clinicians and their patients understand the power of positive lifestyle habits and actions. Written by cardiologist and lifestyle medicine pioneer, Dr. James Rippe, Integrating Lifestyle Medicine in Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention introduces the principles of lifestyle medicine with the practice of cardiology to help lower the risk of heart disease and, if already present, assist in its treatment. This book provides evidence-based information on both the prevention and treatment of CVD through lifestyle measures such as regular physical activity, sound nutrition, weight management and avoidance of tobacco products. This information aids physicians and patients to better understand multiple linkages between poor habits and practices, employing them with associated behavioral techniques to lessen the likelihood of developing CVD. Features: Summarizes major issues in CVD including heart attack, stroke, atrial fibrillation, high blood pressure, lipid abnormalities and obesity. Provides protocols for overcoming a sedentary lifestyle and using lifestyle medicine techniques to optimize brain health. Empowers clinicians with vital information for consultations on the power of lifestyle medicine practices, both to treat symptoms if already present or to prevent major components of CVD from developing in the future. Written for practitioners at all levels, this user-friendly volume in the Lifestyle Medicine series is valuable to practitioners in general medicine or subspecialty practices including lifestyle medicine and cardiology.

Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice - A Postqualitative Cartography (Paperback): Tim... Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice - A Postqualitative Cartography (Paperback)
Tim Barlott, Jenny Setchell
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Edge Entanglements traverses the borderlands of the community "mental health" sector by "plugging in" to concepts offered by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari along with work from Mad Studies, postcolonial, and feminist scholars. Barlott and Setchell demonstrate what postqualitative inquiry can do, surfacing the transformative potential of freely-given relationships between psychiatrised people and allies in the community. Thinking with theory, the authors map the composition and generative processes of freely-given, ally relationships. Edge Entanglements surfaces how such relationships can unsettle constraints of the mental health sector and produce creative possibilities for psychiatrised people. Affectionately creating harmonies between theory and empirical "data," the authors sketch ally relationships in ways that move. Allyship is enacted through micropolitical processes of becoming-complicit: ongoing movement towards taking on the struggle of another as your own. Barlott and Setchell's work offers both conceptual and practical insights into postqualitative experimentation, relationship-oriented mental health practice, and citizen activism that unsettles disciplinary boundaries. Ongoing, disruptive movements on the margins of the mental health sector - such as freely-given relationships - offer opportunities to be otherwise. Edge Entanglements is for people whose lives and practices are precariously interconnected with the mental health sector and are interested in doing things differently. This book is likely to be useful for novice and established (applied) new material and/or posthumanist scholars interested in postqualitative, theory-driven research; health practitioners seeking alternative or radical approaches to their work; and people interested in citizen advocacy, activism, and community organising in/out of the mental health sector.

Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere - Practice for Pre-conception to the Critical 1000 Days and Beyond (Paperback): Lorna Davies,... Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere - Practice for Pre-conception to the Critical 1000 Days and Beyond (Paperback)
Lorna Davies, Susan Crowther
R1,112 Discovery Miles 11 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere draws together and critically appraises a raft of emerging research around mindfulness in healthcare, looking especially at its relevance to pregnancy and childbirth. Divided into three parts, this reflective book: * Investigates the phenomena of mindfulness through discussions of neuroscience, an indigenous worldview and research methods. * Develops the concept of mindfulness for use in practice with women/and babies across the continuum of childbirth. It includes chapters on birth environments, intrapartum care, mental health, fertility, breastfeeding and parenting among others. * Explores mindfulness as a tool for birth practitioners and educators, promoting self-care, resilience and compassion. Each chapter discusses specific research, evidence and experiences of mindfulness, including practical advice and an example of a mindfulness practice. This is an essential read for all those interested in mindfulness in connection to pregnancy and childbirth, including midwives, doulas, doctors and birth activists, whether involved in practice, research or education.

New Perspectives on Medical Clowning (Hardcover): Amnon Raviv New Perspectives on Medical Clowning (Hardcover)
Amnon Raviv
R1,484 Discovery Miles 14 840 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Taking the recent coronavirus pandemic as a starting point, this book presents and analyzes new research around medical clowning in hospitals, from social media use to the impact on the hospitalized child in later life. This innovative book begins with an overview of the work of medical clowns. It discusses the idea of humor as a mechanism related to the revolution in language and human consciousness, and makes a connection between humor and anxiety, exploring how this can be mobilized to support hospitalized patients. There is extensive examination of medical clowning to strengthen coping skills and promote wellbeing in the time of Covid-19, where loneliness and isolation loomed large and anxieties were high. Subsequent chapters explore the role of medical clowning in wartime and at time of natural disasters, the experiences of children some time after their experience of hospitalization and clowning, and the role of social media and medical clowns in community building. This book is a fascinating contribution to the literature on medical clowning. It is of interest to researchers, practitioners and lecturers in medical clowning, play in healthcare, nursing, medicine, and performance studies.

Embodied Progress - A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception (Paperback, 2nd edition): Sarah Franklin Embodied Progress - A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Sarah Franklin
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's findings in the context of the past two decades and providing a 'state-of-the-art' review of the field today. Over the past 25 years, both the assisted conception industry and the academic field of reproductive studies have grown enormously. IVF, in particular, is belatedly becoming recognised as one of the most influential technologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a far-reaching set of implications that have to date been underestimated, understudied and under-reported. This pioneering text was the first to explore the emergence of commercial IVF in the United Kingdom, where the technique was originally developed. During the 1980s, the British Parliament devised a unique system of comprehensive national regulation of assisted reproduction amidst fractious public and media debate over IVF and embryo research. Franklin chronicles these developments and explores their significance in relation to classic anthropological debates about the meanings of kinship, gender and the 'biological facts' of parenthood. Drawing on extensive personal interviews with women and couples undergoing IVF, as well as ethnographic fieldword in early IVF clinics, the book explores the unique demands of the IVF technique. In richly detailed chapters, it documents the 'topsy-turvy' world of IVF, and how the experience of undergoing IVF changes its users in ways they had not anticipated. Franklin argues that such experiences reveal a crucial feature of translational biomedical procedures more widely - namely, that these are 'hope technologies' that paradoxically generate new uncertainties and risks in the very space of their supposed resolution. The final chapter closely engages with the 'hope technology' concept, as well as the idea of 'having to try' and uses these frames to link contemporary reproductive studies to core sociological and anthropological arguments about economy, society and technology. In the context of rapid fertility decline and huge growth in the fertility industry, this volume is even more relevant today than when it was first published at the dawn of what Franklin calls the era of 'iFertility'. Embodied Progress is an essential read for all social science academics and students with an interested in the burgeoning new field of reproductive studies. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners working in the fields of reproductive health, biomedicine and policy.

Depression in New Mothers - Causes, Consequences and Treatment Alternatives (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Depression in New Mothers - Causes, Consequences and Treatment Alternatives (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Depression is the most common complication of childbirth and results in adverse health outcomes for both mother and child. It is vital, therefore, that health professionals be ready to help women who have depression, anxiety, or posttraumatic stress disorder in the perinatal period. Now in its third edition, Depression in New Mothers provides a comprehensive approach to treating postpartum depression in an easy-to-use format. It reviews the research and brings together the evidence-base for understanding the causes and for assessing the different treatment options, including those that are safe for breastfeeding mothers. It incorporates research from psychoneuroimmunology and includes chapters on: assessing depression mother-infant sleep traumatic birth experiences infant temperament, illness, and prematurity childhood abuse and partner violence psychotherapy complementary and integrative therapies community support for new mothers antidepressant medication suicide and infanticide. This most recent edition incorporates new research findings from around the world on risk factors, the use of antidepressants, the impact of breastfeeding, and complementary and integrative therapies as well as updated research into racial/ethnic minority differences. Rich with case illustrations and invaluable in treating mothers in need of help, this practical, evidence-based guide dispels the myths that hinder effective treatment and presents up-to-date information on the impact of maternal depression on the mother and their infants alike.

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