Geoffrey Marsh / Mary Renfrew (eds.)

Community-Based Maternity Care ( Ogps )

Herausgeber: Marsh, Geoffrey; Renfrew, Mary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The editors, a GP and a midwife, anticipate the resolution of the current tensions between midwife, GP, and obstetrician and look forward to a responsive, effective and sensitive service for mothers and babies in the next millennium.

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This new book, which has its origins in Dr Marsh's successful earlier book, Modern Obstetrics in General Practice, covers all aspects of maternity care in the community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780192627681
• ISBN-10: 0192627686
• Artikelnr.: 21320533

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1: Introduction
Section I: The mother, the midwife, and the GP
2: The case for community-based maternity care
3: The midwife's potential: from ritual to radical
4: General practitioners' contribution - what's really going on?
5: Multidisciplinary teamwork in maternity care
6: Mothers' experiences! and Mothers' choices!
Section II: Contemporary issues
7: The changing social context
8: The economics of maternity care
9: Auditing care
10: Educating the carers
Section III: Clinical Challenges
11: Social class, age, and ethic differences in maternity outcomes
12: Women with special needs
13: The use of technology in maternity care
14: Born too soon, or too small - or both
15: Fetal origins of adult disease
Section IV: Clinical Care
16: Pre-conception care, congenital disorders and the new genetics
1718: New thoughts on the physiology of pregnancyPsychological health before, during, and after childbirth
19: Latest views on the antenatal programme
20: Intercurrent illness during maternity care
21: Care in normal labour
22: Care of the mother after birth
23: Newborn babies and how to treat them
24: Breastfeeding
Section V: Conclusions
25: Care for the third millennium