The Midwife Challenge Issues in Womens Health series

ISBN: 9780044408451

出版社: Paul & Co Pub Consortium

出版年: 1991-1

页数: 277

定价: 12.95

装帧: Pap

内容简介

WHY WOMEN NEED
MIDWIVES
SHEILA KITZINGER
In childbirth today the obstetrician usually stands centre-stage.
The midwife is invisible. Yet historically??? ever since the first
recorded accounts of birth??? and in countries all over the world???
midwives have had the main responsibility for giving care
before??? during and after a baby is born??? and in many societies
today the health of most mothers and newborn babies still
depends on midwives. Midwives are the experts in normal
childbirth??? and in giving care which prevents the development of
the abnormal.
The midwife shares the experience with the woman giving
birth. She is literally mid or with her in an empathic??? intimate
relationship ( midwife comes from the Anglo-Saxon literally
meaning with woman )??? while the obstetrician stands in front
of the woman. The midwife is also the wise woman??? the sage
femme who understands women s rhythms and the mysteries of
birth and death. Two thousand five hundred years ago??? the Tao
Te Ching described the role of the midwife thus: