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A comprehensive literature review on childbirth: a time of options [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Includes bibliographical ...
Rubenzer, Carly J.
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Natural childbirth in twentieth century England : a history of alternative approaches to birth from the 1940s to the 1990s.

open access: yes, 2010
PhDIt is well-established that a medical model of childbirth shaped maternity policy during the second half of the twentieth century. However, alongside this narrative of medicalised childbirth, an idea emerged that was to challenge medical hegemony in
Raphael, Amanda-Jane
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A Critical Analysis of the Medical Model As Used in the Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth [PDF]

open access: yes
One key concept in medical sociology/anthropology for the analysis of approaches to health and illness is the medical model. However, this medical model is not only applied at the analytical level, i.e.
Edwin van Teijlingen
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The effect of individual counseling on attitudes and decisional conflict in the choice of delivery among nulliparous women

open access: yesJournal of Education and Health Promotion, 2020
BACKGROUND: The most important reasons for choosing cesarean include negative attitude of pregnant women toward natural childbirth, and it is not easy for many women to make a decision about the choice of delivery, Midwives as responsible individuals ...
Nafise Andaroon   +3 more
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A Critical Analysis of the Medical Model as used in the Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth

open access: yes, 2005
One key concept in medical sociology/anthropology for the analysis of approaches to health and illness is the medical model. However, this medical model is not only applied at the analytical level, i.e.
van Teijlingen, Edwin
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The Effect of Relaxation on Childbirth and an Increase in Natural Childbirth

open access: yesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul, 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Childbirth is a natural phenomenon and physiological and risky process done in two ways:  natural and caesarean. Since the majority of cesarean section reasons are the request of pregnant women and fear of labor pain of natural ...
M Baleghi, E Mohamadian, Y Zahedpasha
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The Effects of Natural Childbirth Versus Normal Labor on Duration of Labor of Primiparous Women.

open access: yesJournal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2012
Objective: This research aimed to compare the duration of labor in phase 1, 2, and 3 of primiparous women who have a natural childbirth and those who have a normal labor. Material and Methods: The subjects of this research were 80 primiparous women. They
Sureeporn Kritcharoen   +2 more
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Illuminating birth: exploring the impact of birthing environment lighting on labor

open access: yesFrontiers in Global Women's Health
IntroductionNumerous factors influence the birth experience and outcomes, both positively and negatively. We aimed to investigate the relationship between the birth room environment and light condition during birth and their effects on birth method ...
Shenhav Albo   +8 more
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When expectation does not meet reality: Discordant childbirth narratives among Austin-area women

open access: yes, 2013
Women’s experiences of childbirth are easily accessible: they are found aplenty in commercial bookstores, the pages of scholarly articles in nearly every academic discipline, and, perhaps most interestingly, at the dinner table. This abundance of stories
Guidorzi, Brianna
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Holistic obstetrics: the origins of "natural childbirth" in Britain.

open access: yes, 2003
The term "natural childbirth" denotes an approach to childbirth characterised by a bias towards physical and mental hygiene in the management of pregnancy and labour.
Moscucci, O, O Moscucci
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