Wiggins, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p., d.p.h. Bailli&re, Tindall & Cox, London, 1904. Crown 8vo. Pp. XV & 249, 44 illustrations. Price 3/6. Mr. Denison Wiggins is the Assistant Superintendent of the Greenwich Infirmary, and he has written this small handbook with a view to preparing intending midwives for the requirements of the Examining Board authorized by the Midwives Act, 1902. We are glad to find hi...

RESUMEN Este artículo busca conceptuar la partera pos-moderna, definiéndola como aquella que tiene una postura en relación a la biomedicina y a otros sistemas de conocimiento, moviéndose fluidificado entre ellos para ayudar a las mujeres que asiste. Es consciente, culturalmente competente y políticamente enganchada. Trabaja con recursos de su conocimiento específico, aliados a los intereses de ...

For past millennia, midwives have served women in childbirth. In premodern times, midwives were usually the only birth attendants. With the Industrial Revolution and the arrival of modernism, male physicians either replaced midwives or superceded them in the modernist medical hierarchy, leaving them with plenty of women to attend but with relatively little autonomy. As the new millennium dawns ...

OPSOMMING Die vroedvrou lewer deur die eeue been haar diens aan die gemeenskap en haar rol het saam met die mediese wetenskap ontwikkel. Navorsing is gedoen oor die hedendaagse rol van die vroedvrou in Suid-Afrika. Daar is bevind dat sy in die lewering van omvattende gesondheidsorg die geneesheer aanvul. Sy het voorkomende, koordinerende, terapeutiese, versorgings, opvoedings, besluitnemings en...

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2007 Practising Midwife 10(3):44. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. Having known for a while that The Practising Midwife was celebrating her tenth birthday year, I had been thinking about writing a special articl...

Giving birth is a natural process and most women have to go through it. Gynecologist or Midwife usually uses the leg holder to position the cervix in the stitching process. In some part of rural areas in Indonesia, the labor process normally being done at homes by calling in a midwife or gynecologist. The facilities for this kind of labor process is not yet sufficient, as the use of leg holder ...