Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of ChangeProviding insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry certifications, the Certified Midwife and the Certified Professional Midwife, and examine the history, purposes, complexities, and the political strife that has characterized the evolution of midwifery in America. Including detailed case studies, the book looks at the efforts of direct-entry midwives to achieve legalization and licensure in seven states: New York, Florida, Michigan, Iowa, Virginia, Colorado, and Massachusetts with varying degrees of success. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
1 | |
Developing DirectEntry Midwifery in the United States
| 27 |
StateBased Studies in the Legislation of DirectEntry Midwifery
| 205 |
Core Issues in Mainstreaming Midwives
| 411 |
Other editions - View all
Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change Robbie Davis-Floyd,Christine Barbara Johnson Limited preview - 2006 |
Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change Robbie Davis-Floyd,Christine Barbara Johnson Limited preview - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
accredited ACNM ACNM’s American midwifery apprenticeship baby became become bill biomedical birth at home birth centers breech Certified Professional Midwife cesarean cesarean section chapter childbirth clients clinical CNMs Colorado consumer create cultural Daviss DEMs direct-entry midwifery direct-entry midwives doctors Dorothea Lang efforts exam Florida give birth grassroots health-care homebirth midwifery homebirth midwives hospital birth Ina May Gaskin interviews issue Janet Leigh knowledge labor lay midwifery lay midwives licensed midwives licensure mandorla Massachusetts Maternity MEAC medicine midwife’s midwifery education midwifery legislation midwifery model Midwifery Practice Act Minnesota mother nurse-midwifery nurse-midwives nursing obstetrical obstetricians option organization outcomes percent physicians pitocin political practitioners pregnancy prenatal Professional Midwives public health regulated renegade risk Robbie Davis-Floyd social movement standards status tion transport unlicensed VBACs Virginia wifery wives woman women Yes Yes Yes York City