Midwifery

Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed.

This second edition is a result from a worldwide surge of interest in antiphospholipid syndrome.

What is the reality of being a midwife in the twenty-first century?

This book is a practical, comprehensive look at safe sleep for infants, including safe sleep for infants with co-occurring medical conditions.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Periimplantation Processes, held July 15 - 18, 1994, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gynaecological textbooks are divided into sections according to pathological diagnoses, not according to symptoms or symptom complexes.

This book explores how, why and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as a methodology in health and social research.

This book presents an ethnographic study on gestational surrogacy in India.

A comprehensive textbook providing a complete overview of the multifaceted nature of public health practice.

This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century, focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece, the impact of Christianity, the establishment of the man-midwife in the 18th century, the medicalisation of childbirth, the emergence of a new representation of the foetus as "e;unborn citizen"e;, and, finally, the revolution of reproductive technologies.

This volume explores the unique challenges midwifery graduates face as they move into practice.

This atlas offers a guide to studying the fetal face by means of ultrasound analysis.

Qualitative research, once on the fringes, now plays a central part in advancing nursing and midwifery knowledge, contributing to the development of the evidence base for healthcare practice.

In response to the complexity involved in treating leukemia during pregnancy, and the need to find the most efficient treatment possible without harming the fetus, this book offers essential guidelines for institutions and practitioners alike.

Gynecologists cannot fulfill the commitments of their profession without being psychosomatically oriented.

This Reader reproduces fifteen classic and influential accounts of nursing research selected by a panel of senior nurse researchers and teachers.

Make your home a safe haven of peace and connection for your family with these cozy and creative ideas.

Nursing and Social Change is essential reading for nurses who wish to understand how their profession had developed from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

This text is intended to serve as a reference guide for clinicians who consult pregnant women presenting with abdominal and pelvic pain.

A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf , this book reenergises the study of kinship.

Die sich rasch wandelnde Lehre in der studentischen Ausbildung machte es erforderlich, das K- zept der ersten Auflage gründlich zu überdenken.

As research in neuroscience increasingly points to the unparalleled influence of the first 1000 days of life from conception to two years of age in determining the baby's life trajectory, the need for high-quality early parenting education delivered by knowledgeable and dedicated professionals becomes ever more apparent.

The result of a ten-year collaboration between Australian and Samoan researchers and midwives, this book compiles the first-person stories of several generations of Samoan midwives, both those who use traditional techniques for home birth and those who use Western techniques in a hospital.

This is an essential guide for all health and social work practitioners supporting an increasing number of learners, trainees, apprentices and pre-registration students engaging in practice-based and work-based learning.

This splendid volume presents numerous aspects of preterm labor and delivery, from its fundamental mechanism to clinically focused approaches.

This book provides unparalleled images to assist the physician and dentist in recognizing, diagnosing and reporting child abuse and neglect.

Yatdjuligin introduces students to the fundamentals of health care of Indigenous Australians.

Stillen erfreut sich seit Jahren wieder zunehmender Beliebtheit und wird auch von Seiten der Hebammen und Ärztinnen und Ärzte positiv unterstützt.

Im vorliegenden Band sind die Vorträge der 20.

In the later stages of gestation, fetal functions undergo increasing change and development, preparing the fetus for the transition to its postnatal environment.

Many midwives will care for women who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), whether these women disclose this or not.

Perinatal medicine, which is concerned with the problems of the fetus and newborn, has rapidly developed in the last two decades as an important and challenging specialty.

The present book is an illustrated guide on fetal medicine, including a wealth of normal and pathological/malformations ultrasound images, throughout the whole pregnancy.

A comprehensive, evidence-based guide to all aspects of operative vaginal birth, accompanying the RCOG Operative Birth Simulation Training (ROBuST) course.

Der immer noch dynamischen Entwicklung der Neonatologie, die nun auch in Deutschland als Schwerpunkt innerhalb der Pädiatrie etabliert und mit einer eigenen Weiterbildungsordnung versehen ist, trägt diese komplett überarbeitete 5.

Die Ankunft ihres Babys wird von vielen Frauen herbeigesehnt.

This concise work on embryo transfer is yet another contribution to the persevering effort to disseminate latest information on the science and skill of performing a traumatic and successful embryo transfer.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the technical and clinical aspects of the vascular interventional radiological (IR) procedures currently employed in obstetrics and gynaecology.

Caring is at the core of what nurses and other health professionals do.

This textbook is written in line with the Council of International Neonatal Nurses, Inc.

Written by an experienced psychotherapist, this book provides professionals in the fields of health and wellbeing with a guide to human relationships with food, and their impact on mental health.

Developing Practical Nursing Skills helps you learn and perfect the practical skills required to become a qualified nurse.

Along with AIDS, antiphospholipid syndrome was the major medical discovery of the late 20th century, so for many it is still deemed a 'new' disease.

This book explores how experiences of IVF can affect the transition to parenthood for non-donor infertile couples.

Short, concise summary of clinical and non-clinical aspects of obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia for trainees and seniors.

This contributed volume explores flexible, adaptable, and sustainable solutions to the shockingly high costs of birth across the globe.