Sökning: "midwifery"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 58 avhandlingar innehållade ordet midwifery.
6. Genuine Caring in Caring for the Genuine : Childbearing and high risk as experienced by women and midwives
Sammanfattning : The experience of pregnancy and childbirth is a central life event with special implications for women at high risk. This thesis describes the meaning of pregnancy, childbirth and midwifery care in four qualitative interview studies based on the lifeworld theory. Women were interviewed during pregnancy and within one week after childbirth. LÄS MER
7. Pregnant Adolescents in Vietnam : Social context and health care needs
Sammanfattning : Background: The number of childbearing adolescents in Vietnam is relatively low but they are more prone to experience adverse outcome than adult women. Reports of increasing rates of abortion and prevalence of STIs including HIV among youth indicate a need to improve services and counselling for these groups. LÄS MER
8. 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
9. 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
10. Prolonged passive second stage of labour in nulliparous women : A multi perspective study
Sammanfattning : Aim: This study aimed to describe the prolonged passive second stage of labour in nulliparous women in relation to its prevalence, risk factors, birth outcomes, midwives’ intrapartum management, and women's birth experiences. Methods: Study I was a qualitative study in which 36 midwives participated in seven focus group discussions. LÄS MER