Birth models that work [electronic resource] / edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd ... [et al.]. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. - x, 484 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Dutch obstetrical system : vanguard of the future in maternity care / The New Zealand maternity system : a midwifery renaissance / The Ontario midwifery model of care / Samoan midwives' stories : joining social and professional midwives in new models of birth / The Albany midwifery practice / Small really is beautiful : tales from a freestanding birth center in England / Transforming the culture of a maternity service : St. George Hospital, Sydney, Australia / Maternity homes in Japan : reservoirs of normal childbirth / Raymond De Vries ... [et al.] -- Chris Hendry -- Margaret E. MacDonald and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault -- Lesley Barclay Utumuu -- Becky Reed and Cathy Walton -- Denis Walsh -- Pat Brodie and Caroline Homer -- Etsuko Matsuoka and Fumiko Hinokuma -- The northern New Mexico midwifery center model, Taos, New Mexico / Teamwork : an obstetrician, a midwife, and a doula in Brazil / The CASA Hospital and professional midwifery school : an education and practice model that works / Mercy in action : bringing mother- and baby-friendly birth centers to the Philippines / Circles of community : the CenteringPregnancy Group prenatal care model / Humanizing childbirth to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality : a national effort in Brazil / "Orchestrating normal" : the conduct of midwifery in the United States / Elizabeth Gilmore -- Ricardo Herbert Jones -- Lisa Mills and Robbie Davis-Floyd -- Vicki Penwell -- Sharon Schindler Rising and Rima Jolivet -- Daphne Rattner ... [et al.] -- Holly Powell Kennedy.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Maternal health services--Cross-cultural studies.
Childbirth--Cross-cultural studies.
Labor (Obstetrics)--Cross-cultural studies.
Midwifery--Cross-cultural studies.


Electronic books.

RG940 / .B55 2009eb

362.19/82