Social Perspectives on Pregnancy and Childbirth for Midwives, Nurses - and the Caring Profession

Informationen zum Autor Julie Kent is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England! Bristol. She has a nursing background and completed a PhD about midwifery education. She is co-editor of Women! Research and Careers. Her current research is on human implant technologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series editor's preface Part one: The biological and the social The biological and the social Who knows best? Competing approaches to childbirth Part two: The professionals Educating the professionals Midwifery as 'women's work' Part three: Constructing identities Women as mothers Sexual identities Part four: Women's bodies Reproductive technologies and the new genetics Imaging bodies Changing childbirth! changing the future? References Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Kent, Julie Kent, Peter Kent
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780335199112
• ISBN: 978-0-335-19911-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Social Science for Nurses and; Social Science for Nurses and
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General