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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"home birth"”.
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Home birth in the UK: a safe choice?
The safety of home as a place of birth in developed countries, and the extent to which pregnant women should have the right to choose a home birth, are highly contentious and emotive subjects which have been hotly debated for many years. Since 1993, Government policy in England and Wales has been …
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Why Take the Risk?: Women's Interpretive Repertoires for Choosing Home Birth
… of risk by mothers making the choice to give birth at home in Missoula, Montana. Social constructivism assumes that knowledge about risk is filtered through “social and cultural frameworks of understanding” (Lupton and Tulloch 2002, 321). The information gained from participants in this study …
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Why Take the Risk?: Women's Interpretive Repertoires for Choosing Home Birth
… of risk by mothers making the choice to give birth at home in Missoula, Montana. Social constructivism assumes that knowledge about risk is filtered through “social and cultural frameworks of understanding” (Lupton and Tulloch 2002, 321). The information gained from participants in this study …
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Women’s perspectives of home birth with a traditional birth attendant in the East African Community: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Maternal mortality and morbidity related to childbirth constitutes a considerable health burden in the East African Community (EAC). This project aims to understand the perspectives of women regarding the role of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in home birth occurring in the EAC. To address …
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Paradoxical Subjects - Women Telling Birth Stories
… of subjectivity in and through the telling of birth stories. Drawing on 50 interviews with middle-class women, most of who "chose" to birth either at home or via elective caesarean section, the thesis explores how women make birth "choices" and "experience" home-birth and caesarean-birth within …
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An Ethical Analysis of Alternatives in Childbirth
… to what has become the typical U.S. childbirth experience are, under appropriate circumstances, safe and provide benefits which justify their protection as childbirth options. This factual conclusion, which has ethical significance, is based on literature review and a comparison of the …
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Religion, Emotion, and Spirituality in American Hospital Childbirth
… or religion as important components of hospital birth, these interviews provide a unique perspective. Focusing on the meanings of the birth process and its spiritual significance in the narratives provided by subjects, the interviews suggest the possibility for providers and patients to view …
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Religion, Emotion, and Spirituality in American Hospital Childbirth
… or religion as important components of hospital birth, these interviews provide a unique perspective. Focusing on the meanings of the birth process and its spiritual significance in the narratives provided by subjects, the interviews suggest the possibility for providers and patients to view …
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Social networks, bargaining power within couples, and maternal health care in Tanzania
… facility (public and private), as opposed to a home birth. It further investigates the effect of bargaining on the probability of health care provider choice at childbirth using a multinomial nested logit. Evidence suggests that cooperation within couples in decision-making, female discretion …
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Homebirth in WA: Why women make this choice
Background: Homebirths in Western Australia (WA) account for approximately 0.8% of all births. Two consecutive reports from the Perinatal and Infant Mortality Monitoring Committee found increased rates of perinatal mortality in homebirths and recommended a prospective cohort study to assess …
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Catching Satisfaction: Personal And Political Framing In The Homebirth Movement
… motives, and framing process of a cohort of homebirthing women in Tucson, Arizona who embody the collective action frames of the national homebirth movement. A model of birth frame construction, alignment and adoption is presented that expands current theory on social movement framing …