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...

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

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 ...