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Direct linkMacKenzie, Claire – Studies in Continuing Education, 2004
The changing face of midwifery practice and education in Australia is challenging the previously accepted notions of the birth experience, the options of care that are available for women and their families, and the role of the midwife in that experience. The role of the midwifery educator is also challenged by the move away from a predominantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Politics, Obstetrics
Leue, Mary; Mercogliano, Betsy – Journal of Family Life, 1995
Ina May Gaskin, a traditional midwife and founder of The Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tennessee, discusses how she first became involved in midwifery, where she learned her skills, the status of midwifery, and her future plans. Ms. Gaskin has been instrumental in the revolution of birth practices worldwide. (LP)
Descriptors: Birth, Family (Sociological Unit), Females, Interviews
"Children's Health Care, Parts 1-4." Options in Education Takes Listeners to the Core of the Issues.
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1981
The scripts of four programs of National Public Radio's Options in Education series are presented. The first program has sequences involving the use of high technology in childbirth. Interviews with doctors and expectant mothers explore the use and availability of electronic monitoring equipment in prenatal care. In the second program, the high…
Descriptors: Birth, Child Rearing, Economically Disadvantaged, Health Education
Lambert, Maureen; Brody, Fern – Database, 1985
Reviews the process of tailoring an online search that would span several files on the topic of music during the childbirth experience. Search strategies and terms used in PsycINFO, Mental Health Abstracts, MEDLINE, ERIC, Sociological Abstracts, Social Scisearch, Scisearch, and Dissertation Abstracts Online are noted. A nine-item bibliography is…
Descriptors: Birth, Databases, Information Retrieval, Music Therapy
Maglacas, A. Mangay, Ed.; Simons, John, Ed. – 1986
In nine chapters, this book considers the extent to which training programs can be utilized to improve midwifery practice and reduce the risks surrounding childbirth in rural populations. The book opens with a chapter reviewing the question of whether the availability of trained birth attendants can be linked to a reduced incidence of neonatal…
Descriptors: Birth, Developing Nations, Diseases, Folk Culture
Mercogliano, Chris – Journal of Family Life, 1995
Joseph Chilton Pearce, a writer who lectures internationally on child development, discusses the importance of the birth environment on infant development, the negative effects resulting from doctor-assisted births, his experiences in the births of his children, the importance of bonding, and the relationship between childbirth and childhood…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Authors, Birth, Child Development
