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Evidence-based care is a well established principle in contemporary
healthcare and a worldwide health care movement. However, despite
the emphasis on promoting evidence-based or effective care without
the unnecessary use of technologies and drugs, intervention rates
in childbirth continue to rise rapidly. This new edition emphasises
the importance of translating evidence into skilful practice. It
updates the evidence around what works best for normal birth,
aspects of which still remain hidden and ignored by some maternity
care professionals. Beginning with the decision about where to have
a baby, through all the phases of labour to the immediate
post-birth period, it systematically details research and other
evidence sources that endorse a low intervention approach. The
second edition: has been expanded with new chapters on Preparation
for Childbirth and Waterbirth highlights where the evidence is
compelling discusses its application where women question its
relevance to them and where the practitioner's expertise leads them
to challenge it gives background and context before discussing the
research to date includes questions for reflection, skills sections
and practice recommendations generated from the evidence. Using
evidence drawn from a variety of sources, Evidence and Skills for
Normal Labour and Birth critiques institutionalised, scientifically
managed birth and endorses a more humane midwifery-led model.
Packed with up-to-date and relevant information, this text will
help all students, practising midwives and doulas keep abreast of
the evidence surrounding normal birth and ensure their practice
takes full advantage of it.
This title includes Foreword by Sheila Kitzinger, Writer,
Researcher, Activist and Honorary Professor, Wolfson School of
Health Sciences, Thames Valley University. Birth centres are
suitable for every woman whose birth is straightforward, which
accounts for around 75 per cent of all women. This inspirational
guide shows how small scale maternity provision has a profound
clinical and organisational advantage over large scale hospital
provision, including saving of time and money by reducing
intervention rates. It presents the thoughts and feelings of
midwives and patients and how both enjoy the humane and
compassionate care of the birth centre ethos. The book is
invaluable for midwives, obstetricians, doulas, maternity care
assistants and maternity service planners and managers. It also
provides enlightening information for general practitioners and
other health and social care professionals, maternity service users
groups and academics with an interest in midwifery and health
services. "What birth centres do best is simply providing humane
childbirth care. There are no high tech gadgetry, doctors or
dramatic stories of childbirth rescues that make it into the media.
Yet 'miracles' happen inside their walls every day as women have
their babies after normal labours and births. Until now, there have
been very few books detailing what happens in birth centres so that
women and childbirth professionals can be introduced to an
alternative beyond the large hospital model. This book provides a
window in on the birth centre model and there are some exciting
things to find there about childbirth care in the 21st century." -
Denis Walsh, in the Preface. "Denis Walsh has one of the most
incisive, analytical and brilliant minds in nursing and midwifery
research today. He demonstrates the difference between a quality
environment for birth where a woman can create her own 'nest', and
a technocratic, bureaucratically controlled, highly medicalised and
risk-oriented birth culture dominated by the clock, which is most
women's experience today." - Sheila Kitzinger, in the Foreword.
Evolution - both the fact that it occurred and the theory
describing the mechanisms by which it occurred - is an intrinsic
and central component in modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky
captures this well in the much-quoted title of his 1973 paper
'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution'.
The correctness of this assertion is even more obvious today:
philosophers of biology and biologists agree that the fact of
evolution is undeniable and that the theory of evolution explains
that fact. Such a theory has far-reaching implications. In this
volume, eleven distinguished scholars address the conceptual,
metaphysical and epistemological richness of the theory and its
ethical and religious impact, exploring topics including DNA
barcoding, three grand challenges of human evolution,
functionalism, historicity, design, evolution and development, and
religion and secular humanism. The volume will be of great interest
to those studying philosophy of biology and evolutionary biology.
There's a wealth of information out there for expectant mums on
pregnancy and birth, but so often the dad is left out of the
conversation. Male midwife Mark Harris seeks to redress the balance
with this new book, drawing on his decades of experience with
couples as they make the transition to being new parents. Covering
topics from massage to sex, and pain relief during labour to
breastfeeding, this is a lively, honest and frank discussion of
pregnancy and birth from a man's point of view. Mark explores how
to harness the power of birthing hormones, how to remain calm and
aware in the birthing room, how to communicate effectively, and
ultimately how to live the process of becoming a father to the
full.
Evolution - both the fact that it occurred and the theory
describing the mechanisms by which it occurred - is an intrinsic
and central component in modern biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky
captures this well in the much-quoted title of his 1973 paper
'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution'.
The correctness of this assertion is even more obvious today:
philosophers of biology and biologists agree that the fact of
evolution is undeniable and that the theory of evolution explains
that fact. Such a theory has far-reaching implications. In this
volume, eleven distinguished scholars address the conceptual,
metaphysical and epistemological richness of the theory and its
ethical and religious impact, exploring topics including DNA
barcoding, three grand challenges of human evolution,
functionalism, historicity, design, evolution and development, and
religion and secular humanism. The volume will be of great interest
to those studying philosophy of biology and evolutionary biology.
Evidence-based care is a well established principle in contemporary
healthcare and a worldwide health care movement. However, despite
the emphasis on promoting evidence-based or effective care without
the unnecessary use of technologies and drugs, intervention rates
in childbirth continue to rise rapidly. This new edition emphasises
the importance of translating evidence into skilful practice. It
updates the evidence around what works best for normal birth,
aspects of which still remain hidden and ignored by some maternity
care professionals. Beginning with the decision about where to have
a baby, through all the phases of labour to the immediate
post-birth period, it systematically details research and other
evidence sources that endorse a low intervention approach. The
second edition: has been expanded with new chapters on Preparation
for Childbirth and Waterbirth highlights where the evidence is
compelling discusses its application where women question its
relevance to them and where the practitioner's expertise leads them
to challenge it gives background and context before discussing the
research to date includes questions for reflection, skills sections
and practice recommendations generated from the evidence. Using
evidence drawn from a variety of sources, Evidence and Skills for
Normal Labour and Birth critiques institutionalised, scientifically
managed birth and endorses a more humane midwifery-led model.
Packed with up-to-date and relevant information, this text will
help all students, practising midwives and doulas keep abreast of
the evidence surrounding normal birth and ensure their practice
takes full advantage of it.
Since its origin in the early 20th century, the Modern Synthesis
theory of evolution has grown to become the orthodox view on the
process of organic evolution. Its central defining feature is the
prominence it accords to genes in the explanation of evolutionary
dynamics. Since the advent of the 21st century, however, the Modern
Synthesis has been subject to repeated and sustained challenges.
These are largely empirically driven. In the last two decades,
evolutionary biology has witnessed unprecedented growth in the
understanding of those processes that underwrite the development of
organisms and the inheritance of characters. The empirical advances
usher in challenges to the conceptual foundations of evolutionary
theory. The extent to which the new biology challenges the Modern
Synthesis has been the subject of lively debate. Many current
commentators charge that the new biology of the 21st century calls
for a revision, extension, or wholesale rejection of the Modern
Synthesis Theory of evolution. Defenders of the Modern Synthesis
maintain that the theory can accommodate the exciting new advances
in biology. The original essays collected in this volume survey the
various challenges to the Modern Synthesis arising from the new
biology of the 21st century. The authors are evolutionary
biologists, philosophers of science, and historians of biology from
Europe and North America. Each of the essays discusses a particular
challenge to the Modern Synthesis treatment of inheritance,
development, or adaptation. Taken together, the essays cover a
spectrum of views, from those that contend that the Modern
Synthesis can rise to the challenges of the new biology, with
little or no revision required, to those that call for the
abandonment of the Modern Synthesis. The collection will be of
interest to researchers and students in evolutionary biology, and
the philosophy and history of the biological sciences.
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