Towards the Humanisation of Birth A study of epidural analgesia and hospital birth culture /

• Main Authors: Newnham, Elizabeth (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), McKellar, Lois (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pincombe, Jan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Medical anthropology.; Maternal and child health services.; Ethnography.; Women.; Medical Sociology.; Medical Anthropology.; Maternal and Child Health.; Women's Studies.

This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth. It describes historical and cultural trajectories that have shaped the way in which birth is understood in Western, developed nations. In setting out the nature of epidural history, kno...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Epidural in Context
• 3. The Politics of Birth
• 4. Institutional Culture: Discipline and Resistance
• 5. A Dialectic of Risk
• 6. A Circle of Trust
• 7. Closing the Circle.