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Birthing Outside the System - The Canary in the Coal Mine (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,277
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Birthing Outside the System - The Canary in the Coal Mine (Paperback): Hannah Dahlen, Bashi Kumar-Hazard, Virginia Schmied

Birthing Outside the System - The Canary in the Coal Mine (Paperback)

Hannah Dahlen, Bashi Kumar-Hazard, Virginia Schmied

Series: Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery

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This book investigates why women choose 'birth outside the system' and makes connections between women's right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems. Choosing to birth at home can force women out of mainstream maternity care, despite research supporting the safety of this option for low-risk women attended by midwives. When homebirth is not supported as a birthplace option, women will defy mainstream medical advice, and if a midwife is not available, choose either an unregulated careprovider or birth without assistance. This book examines the circumstances and drivers behind why women nevertheless choose homebirth by bringing legal and ethical perspectives together with the latest research on high-risk homebirth (breech and twin births), freebirth, birth with unregulated careproviders and the oppression of midwives who support unorthodox choices. Stories from women who have pursued alternatives in Australia, Europe, Russia, the UK, the US, Canada, the Middle East and India are woven through the research. Insight and practical strategies are shared by doctors, midwives, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists on how to manage the tension between professional obligations and women's right to bodily autonomy. This book, the first of its kind, is an important contribution to considerations of place of birth and human rights in childbirth.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery
Release date: June 2021
First published: 2020
Editors: Hannah Dahlen • Bashi Kumar-Hazard • Virginia Schmied
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-50660-5
Categories: Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International human rights law
Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Midwifery > Birthing methods
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
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LSN: 0-367-50660-2
Barcode: 9780367506605

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