Product Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky, the final installment in the award-winning trilogy that The Washington Post called “a big, genre-bending delight.”When the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagonist of The Map of Chaos does all he can to speak to her one last time...read more

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Product Description: The Student’s Guide to Becoming a Midwife is essential reading for all student midwives. Now updated to include the latest 2012 NMC Midwifery Rules and Standards and a brand new chapter on the midwife and public health, this comprehensive resource provides a wide range of need-to-know information for student midwives, including: Effective communication and documentation Confidentiality Interdisciplinary working The fundamentals of antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care Assessment and examination of the new-born baby Medicines Public health Clinical decision-making Evidence-based practice With case studies, words of wisdom from current midwives and a range of activities and self-test questions throughout – making it easy to learn and understand key concepts – The Student’s Guide to Becoming a Midwife is the ideal companion for students throughout their course...read more

Product Description: This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities...read more

Product Description: Based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants, and the women they served, "In the Way of Our Grandmothers" tells of the midwife's trade--her principles, traditions, and skills--and of the competing medical profession's successful program to systematically destroy the practice...read more

Product Description: This practical handbook presents evidence-based guidelines for the identification and management of postnatal health needs. It reviews the evidence on the physical and psychological postpartum health problems experienced by women, and the primary management of these, and facilitates individualised care...read more

This book considers the broad range of support given to mothers including social, psychological and clinical. It also looks at the provision of this service and how different models have been set up internationally to fulfill this important function. It brings together the latest research findings, which examine the nature of care that is provided and consider what constitutes effective and efficient support. This aspect of care is considered a crucial part of the increasing and expanding role of the midwife. The ability of midwives to provide ongoing support throughout childbearing is one of the features of midwifery care which distinguishes it from other care providers. This is a feature which is common to the resurgence of midwifery throughout the world and therefore this text will have international appeal.

Product Description: This book explores the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/midwifery. It examines the ever-expanding integration in relation to: the role and conceptualization of the patient the role and responsibilities of different professional healthcare providers (nurses, midwives, alternative therapists, etc) the future provision and approach of nursing and midwifery practice the challenges and opportunities currently facing healthcare systems as a result of integration...read more

Explores international relations since 1945 including how the transformation of world politics has been inhibited by the strength of persistent global patterns and the varying organizations and movements that have influenced the global arena

Explains the operations of midwifery--the training, the birth process, the autagonism between midwives and the medical establishment, the history and customs of the Amish, and the fluctuating balance between nature and science

Addresses the complexity and challenges of learning and assessing in the clinical setting. This edition contains references to educational theory and work on the support of learning and assessment of clinical practice. It places emphasis on assessment to achieve 'fitness to practice', how to avoid 'failure to fail', and more.

Product Description: This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The aim of this book is to provide information that a midwife can use with confidence, knowing that the law is there to protect her and her clients...read more

Product Description: Yale University, New Haven, CT. Text on the practice of midwifery in the U.S., for midwives and nurses. New chapters on preconception care, exercise, lesbian and bisexual women, substance abuse, and more. Previously titled Nurse-Midwifery (1987)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Here's the first-ever handbook on postpartum health care and management! It outlines the most effective, research-supported methods for identifying and managing potential health problems in women after childbirth. With guidelines offering practical, point-by-point information, health professionals can individualize their approach to care within a framework that accounts for both physical and psychological concerns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new comprehensive text recognizes the role of the midwife or clinician practicing using a midwifery model of care as a primary provider for healthy pregnant women. The woman is the central figure in the assessment of her own health needs and the determination of the care processes that will best meet those needs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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