Description
| Product ID: | 9780367506605 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery |
| Title: | Birthing Outside the System |
| Subtitle: | The Canary in the Coal Mine |
| Authors: | Author: Bashi Kumar-Hazard, Virginia Schmied, Hannah Dahlen |
| Page Count: | 484 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women, Sociology, Jurisprudence and general issues, Public international law: human rights, Medicine: general issues, Neonatal medicine, Birthing methods, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Sociology, Jurisprudence & general issues, International human rights law, Medicine: general issues, Neonatal medicine, Birthing methods, Health & personal development |
| Description: | This book investigates why women might decide to birth outside the system and makes connections between women’s right to choose where they give birth and violations of women’s human rights in childbirth within the maternity care system. This book investigates why women choose ‘birth outside the system’ and makes connections between women’s right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems. Choosing to birth at home can force women out of mainstream maternity care, despite research supporting the safety of this option for low-risk women attended by midwives. When homebirth is not supported as a birthplace option, women will defy mainstream medical advice, and if a midwife is not available, choose either an unregulated careprovider or birth without assistance. This book examines the circumstances and drivers behind why women nevertheless choose homebirth by bringing legal and ethical perspectives together with the latest research on high-risk homebirth (breech and twin births), freebirth, birth with unregulated careproviders and the oppression of midwives who support unorthodox choices. Stories from women who have pursued alternatives in Australia, Europe, Russia, the UK, the US, Canada, the Middle East and India are woven through the research. Insight and practical strategies are shared by doctors, midwives, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists on how to manage the tension between professional obligations and women’s right to bodily autonomy. This book, the first of its kind, is an important contribution to considerations of place of birth and human rights in childbirth. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-30 |
