Author: Danielle Hollard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 124

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Author: Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies Emily K Abel
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791402634
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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This work examines the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly. It differs from most writing about caregiving because it focuses on the providers rather than the care recipients. It looks at the experience of women caregivers in specific settings, exploring what caregiving actually entails and what it means in their lives

Author: Robert Silver
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498746004
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Placenta accreta comprises a spectrum of disorders where all or part of the placenta becomes attached to the muscular wall of the uterus, which can result in life-threatening hemorrhage at the time of delivery. Previous surgical procedures (including cesarean delivery) and placenta previa are important risk factors, and the incidence is dramatically increasing. This important practical guide to how clinicians should diagnose and manage placenta accreta will be an invaluable reference for all obstetricians and maternal-fetal specialists.

Author: Grace James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781842061039
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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Part of the initial stage of an Equal Opportunities Commission investigation into discrimination faced by pregnant women at work in Britain, this review highlights the information and data available, concentrating on legal issues. It includes a comparison of the legal provisions available to pregnant workers in France and Sweden.

Author: Deborah Lupton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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This 1999 book presents a variety of exciting perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. Using the framework of recent social and cultural theory, it reflects the fact that risk has become integral to contemporary understandings of selfhood, the body and social relations, and is central to the work of writers such as Douglas, Beck, Giddens and the Foucauldian theorists. The contributors are all leading scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural and media studies and cultural anthropology. Combining empirical analyses with metatheoretical critiques, they tackle an unusually diverse range of topics including drug use, risk in the workplace, fear of crime and the media, risk and pregnant embodiment, the social construction of danger in childhood, anxieties about national identity, the governmental uses of risk and the relationship between risk phenomena and social order.

Author: Denyse Baillargeon
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554582725
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave birth to a vast movement for child welfare that paved the way for a medicalization of childbearing. In Babies for the Nation, basing her analysis on extensive documentary research and more than fifty interviews with mothers, Denyse Baillargeon sets out to understand how doctors were able to convince women to consult them, and why mothers chose to follow their advice. Her analysis considers the medical discourse of the time, the development of free services made available to mothers between 1910 and 1970, and how mothers used these services. Showing the variety of social actors involved in this process (doctors, nurses, women’s groups, members of the clergy, private enterprise, the state, and the mothers themselves), this study delineates the alliances and the conflicts that arose between them in a complex phenomenon that profoundly changed the nature of childbearing in Quebec. Un Québec en mal d’enfants: La médicalisation de la maternité 1910—1970 was awarded the Clio-Québec Prize, the Lionel Groulx-Yves-Saint-Germain Prize, and the Jean-Charles-Falardeau Prize. This translation by W. Donald Wilson brings this important book to a new readership.

Author: Linda L. Layne
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252077202
Category : Feminist theory
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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Recognizing the different needs & desires of women & acknowledging the multiplicity of feminist approaches, this work offers a debate on existing & emergent technologies that share the goal of improving women's lives.

Author: Gail Landsman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135963789
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.

Author: Archie Hunter
Publisher: CTA; MacMillan
ISBN: 9780333612026
Category : Animal health
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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Animal Health Volume 1 is a practical guide for anyone involved with maintaining and establishing the health of animals in tropical and sub-tropical regions. It comprehensively explains the causes of animal diseases, how they spread and the means available for their control. The handbook should be used in conjunction with Volume 2: Specific Diseases which is already published.

Author: Sarah Clement
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780443057601
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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This book explores the psychological aspects of pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood--an area usually overlooked in the perinatology literature. 20 multidisciplinary contributors discuss what parents and their children experience during this emotionally charged period. The result is a much-needed resource that will help health professionals to provide more supportive and empowering care.