What is the reality of being a midwife in the twenty-first century? What is it like to help and s...

Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a toxic environment both in which to practis...

This new edition of a groundbreaking work reflects important developments in the general understa...

The evidence surrounding the skills and approaches to support good birth has grown exponentially ...

Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a hostile environment both in which to pract...

Written by an experienced midwife and researcher, this new edition of a groundbreaking work exami...

What is the reality of being a midwife in the twenty-first century? What is it like to help and s...

The first book to present the history, ideas, life and works of Chinese midwives and birth attend...

′If support were a drug it would be unethical not to use it′ (Klaus et al 1993).

Focusing on the mother's experience of pain and her contribution to its control, this accessible ...

This book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twen...