Sökning: "midwifery practices"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden midwifery practices.
1. Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand
Sammanfattning : This study explores contemporary practices concerning women’s and children’s bodies, with a special focus on postpartum practices, the treatment of the afterbirth and its cosmological dimensions, and male and female circumcision. At the intersection between traditional midwifery and modern medicine, Muslim women cross the boundaries between different cosmologies and medical systems. LÄS MER
2. The second stage of labour - the use of interventions and women's experiences
Sammanfattning : AbstractThe overall aim of this thesis was to explore women´s experiences of the second stage of labour, midwifery practices and the use of interventions.Methods: Study I is a retrospective cohort study where 764 medical records from 2017 were reviewed. Women in Robson group 1 were included. LÄS MER
3. Erôs and Education : Socratic Seduction in Three Platonic Dialogues
Sammanfattning : Plato’s Socrates is famous for claiming that “I know one thing: That I know nothing” (see e.g. Ap. 21d and Meno 81d). LÄS MER
4. Deficient bodies and divine interventions : women, midwives, and the medicalisation of childbirth - a gender perspective
Sammanfattning : Background In Sweden, one of the safest countries to give birth and to be born in, there is a trend towards increasing interventions during childbirth, and fewer women than ever give birth without having their labours induced or augmented, epidural analgesia, or caesarean section. While interventions at times are vital for a safe birth, there is a growing body of evidence demonstrating that an overuse of medical and technological interventions may have adverse effects on woman and child. LÄS MER
5. Preparing midwives as a human resource for maternal health : pre-service education and scope of practice in Gujarat, India
Sammanfattning : One key strategy to achieve reduction in maternal and neonatal mortality is to scale up the availability of skilled birth attendants (SBAs). The staff nurses (i.e., registered nurse and midwives) are skilled birth attendants recognized by the government of India. LÄS MER