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Birth Rites and Rights.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (306 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847316707
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Birth Rites and RightsDDC classification:
  • 344.0415
LOC classification:
  • RG940
Online resources:
Contents:
Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Birth Writes -- Part 1: Experiences and Rites of Birth -- 1. Becoming a Mother: Continuities and Discontinuities over Three Decades -- 2. Changing Medical Birth Rites in Britain: 1970 - 2010 -- 3. Are Doctors Still Improving Childbirth? -- 4. The Midwife-Mother Relationship -- Part 2: Status and Consequences of Birth -- 5. The Loneliness of Status: The Legal and Moral Significance of Birth -- 6. Refusing Medical Treatment during Pregnancy and Birth: Ethical and Legal Issues -- 7. The Consequences for Preterm Infants of Antenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment -- 8. Fathers, Birth and Law -- Part 3: After Birth -- 9. Recording Births: From the Reformation to the Welfare Reform Act -- 10. The Changing Form of Birth Registration? -- 11. Birthright had Nothing to do with it -- Royal Inheritance in the Middle Ages -- 12. Infanticide and Insanity in 19th Century England -- Part 4: Timing of Birth -- 13. Explaining the Trend Towards Older First Time Mothers - A Life Course Perspective -- 14. Too Late or Too Many - Dilemmas Facing the Modern Woman Seeking Help with Fertility -- 15. IVF Birth Data Presentation: Its Impact on Clinical Practice and Patient Choice -- Index.
Summary: This collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing and experiences of birth.
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Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Birth Writes -- Part 1: Experiences and Rites of Birth -- 1. Becoming a Mother: Continuities and Discontinuities over Three Decades -- 2. Changing Medical Birth Rites in Britain: 1970 - 2010 -- 3. Are Doctors Still Improving Childbirth? -- 4. The Midwife-Mother Relationship -- Part 2: Status and Consequences of Birth -- 5. The Loneliness of Status: The Legal and Moral Significance of Birth -- 6. Refusing Medical Treatment during Pregnancy and Birth: Ethical and Legal Issues -- 7. The Consequences for Preterm Infants of Antenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment -- 8. Fathers, Birth and Law -- Part 3: After Birth -- 9. Recording Births: From the Reformation to the Welfare Reform Act -- 10. The Changing Form of Birth Registration? -- 11. Birthright had Nothing to do with it -- Royal Inheritance in the Middle Ages -- 12. Infanticide and Insanity in 19th Century England -- Part 4: Timing of Birth -- 13. Explaining the Trend Towards Older First Time Mothers - A Life Course Perspective -- 14. Too Late or Too Many - Dilemmas Facing the Modern Woman Seeking Help with Fertility -- 15. IVF Birth Data Presentation: Its Impact on Clinical Practice and Patient Choice -- Index.

This collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing and experiences of birth.

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