Based on her 12 year study of a free-standing birth center, Turkel analyzes the medical model of childbirth in contrast to the midwifery model. In the medical model of birth, women are defined as patients and birth takes place in hospitals where women have little, if any, control over their experience. The midwifery model views birth as a healthy process where midwives act as teachers and guides for women during pregnancy and birth, helping women and their families to shape and define their experience to meet their needs and expectations. Under existing legal and cultural circumstances, free-standing birth centers face a dilemma. They must continually accomodate the medical model while trying to maintain the midwifery model and give women an option to home birth or to hospital birth.
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KATHLEEN DOHERTY TURKEL is Assistant Professor in the Women's Studies Program at the University of Delaware.
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This book is excellent in all aspects. Turkel provides excellent comparisons and information on both the medical and midwifery models of childbirth. This book is a must read for anyone having children in the future, childbirth educators, midwives, and just women in general. It is an amazing resource for those also desiring more information on birth centers. I highly reccomend this book.
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birth center clients, practicing privileges, state health council, midwifery approach, birthing women, birth centers, backup physicians, childbirth activists, physician backup, center supporters, midwifery model, center clientele, malpractice insurance crisis, technocratic ideology, childbearing centers, childbirth alternatives, local medical center, lay midwifery, birthing woman, malpractice coverage, lay midwives, childbirth practices, laboring women, electronic fetal monitoring, parent education program Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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birth center clients, practicing privileges, state health council, midwifery approach, birthing women, birth centers, backup physicians, childbirth activists, physician backup, center supporters, midwifery model, center clientele, malpractice insurance crisis, technocratic ideology, childbearing centers, childbirth alternatives, local medical center, lay midwifery, birthing woman, malpractice coverage, lay midwives, childbirth practices, laboring women, electronic fetal monitoring, parent education program Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Midwife Challenge (Issues in Women's Health series) by Sheila Kitzinger on page 53, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Home Birth by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reproductive Technologies (Current Controversies) by Carol Wekesser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Safe Alternatives in Childbirth by David Stewart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The American Way of Birth (Health Society and Policy Series) by Paemla S. Eakins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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