Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Obstetrics-Edited by G. F. Balfour Simpson, m.d., f.r.c.s., etc., Senior Assistant to the Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, and Edward Burnet, b.a., m.b., b.sc., with a Preface by Professor Sir J. Halliday Croom, m.d., f.r.c.s., etc., Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh. In four sections, each containing twenty-five subjects...

AIM To identify the current barriers to developing midwifery as a primary health-care strategy in Jordan and to explore the strategies to overcome these barriers. DESIGN An exploratory design using an action research approach was undertaken. Workshop discussion groups and reflection were used to collect the data. A thematic approach was taken for the analysis. PARTICIPANTS Data were collect...

The development of population policy and health legislation as a result of government, the need for more young, healthy, working and military active population, resulted in the education of all health workers including midwives, legal regulation of their work, increasing their number and training of midwifery profession. With the development of this profession conditions of women giving birth, ...

Human papilloma virus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted agents and its infection is the most established cause of cervical cancer. Midwives play a key position in the implementation of cervical cancer. This descriptive study aimed to determine the level of knowledge concerning HPV and HPV vaccination among 268 midwifery students. Data were collected between November 15 and 30...

Synopsis – The prospect of midwifery legislation in the Canadian Province, Ontario, is investigated in light of other reproductive legislation, especially that concerning new reproductive technologies. The idea that midwifery symbolizes a woman-centered approach to birth is criticized and related to a number of reproductive issues in the hope that the lack of concern for and control by women ca...

According to this paper's synthesis of research, three constituents of ideal midwifery care emerge. First, a dignity-protective action takes place in a midwife's caring relationship with a childbearing woman at high risk and includes mutuality, trust, ongoing dialogue, enduring presence, and shared responsibility. Secondly, the midwife's embodied knowledge is based on genuineness to oneself and...

Despite a substantial increase in midwifery research since the early 1990's, there remains a lack of available research into the everyday practice of midwives. In general, hospitals are striving to reduce costs and increase efficiencies, so many hospital-based midwives are being exposed to hospital restructuring processes. The primary purpose of my research was to learn about the work patterns ...

In the context of international concern about increasing rates of cesarean sections, we used discourse analysis to examine explanations arising from feminism and the disciplines of medicine and midwifery, and found that each was positioned differently in relation to the rising rates. Medical discourses asserted that doctors are authorities on birth and that, although cesareans are sometimes med...

Although childbirth is fundamentally involved with the issue of women's bodies, it is also involved with such social values as politics, economics, medicine, and other phenomena characteristic of a particular time and culture. In this article I divide Japanese society and childbirth into pre-modern, modern, and postmodern phases, with special emphasis on the postmodern phase. I use the word "po...

background: balloon bionic midwifery has been applied in clinical obstetrics in china for 10 years, although played a certain role in controlling and improving the quality of obstetrics and caesarean section rate, but some questions have not been resolved. objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of airbag midwifery. materials and methods: primiparas (2410 cas...