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Journal articles on the topic "North American midwifery"

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RUSHING, BETH. "Ideology in the Reemergence of North American Midwifery." Work and Occupations 20, no. 1 (1993): 46–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0730888493020001003.

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Roth, Louise Marie, Megan M. Henley, Marla J. Seacrist, and Christine H. Morton. "North American Nurses' and Doulas' Views of Each Other." Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing 45, no. 6 (2016): 790–800. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jogn.2016.06.011.

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Surrey, Eric S. "Elective single embryo transfer: a North American perspective." Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2, no. 4 (2007): 399–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1586/17474108.2.4.399.

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Sanfilippo, Joseph S. "The North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Annual Meeting." Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2, no. 4 (2007): 415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1586/17474108.2.4.415.

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Haldane, John. "Incarnational Anthropology." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 29 (March 1991): 191–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100007542.

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The renaissance of philosophy of mind within the analytical tradition owes a great deal to the intellectual midwifery of Ryle and Wittgenstein. It is ironic, therefore, that the current state of the subject should be one in which scientific and Cartesian models of mentality are so widely entertained. Clearly few if any of those who find depth, and truth, in the Wittgensteinian approach are likely to be sympathetic to much of what is most favoured in contemporary analytic philosophical psychology. Finding themselves in a minority, they might well look elsewhere for support, hoping to establish the idea that opposition to scientific and Cartesian ways of thinking is by no means philosophically eccentric. Perhaps this partly explains the increasing British and North American interest in ‘continental’ thought, particularly as it bears (as most of it does) on the nature of human beings. Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre are obvious enough subjects for such attention.

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Williams, Mai’a. "Radical Mothering as a Pathway to Liberation." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 47, no. 3 (2019): 497–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305829819852418.

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I weave several threads in this essay, including the history of obstetrics and traditional Black midwifery, the devastating statistics of Black infant and maternal mortality rates, the experiences of eastern Congolese mama activists, the written and lived testimonies of Black North American mama activists, and my personal narratives to illustrate that the practice of mothering is fundamental to creating co-liberatory revolutionary movements and societies. This essay shows how mama activists, in particular Black mama activists, are taking great risks to their lives in the face of white patriarchal structures and in the midst of the ‘afterlife of slavery’ in order to honour the fallen and create a more just future. It also questions scholar-activists as to how they, whose scholarship is built off of the work of these mama activists, redistribute the life and death risk that mama activists shoulder to create the just world scholar-activists claim to desire.

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Cheyney, Melissa, Christine Olsen, Marit Bovbjerg, Courtney Everson, Ida Darragh, and Brynne Potter. "Practitioner and Practice Characteristics of Certified Professional Midwives in the United States: Results of the 2011 North American Registry of Midwives Survey." Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health 60, no. 5 (2015): 534–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.12367.

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Farel, Claire E., Sharon D. Parker, Kathryn E. Muessig, et al. "Sexuality, Sexual Practices, and HIV Risk Among Incarcerated African-American Women in North Carolina." Women's Health Issues 23, no. 6 (2013): e357-e364. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2013.08.006.

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Schram, C. "30. Abortion and the fall of midwifery in 19th Century North America." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 30, no. 4 (2007): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v30i4.2790.

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The 19th Century in North America was a time of many social and scientific changes that impacted the field of medicine. A result of one such change was the medicalization of childbirth, as the primary care of women during labour shifted from midwives to physicians. While there is ample discourse on the many factors that contributed to this shift, there is very little discussion on the role played by abortion. Studying abortion in the 19th Century is often limited by a paucity of primary sources from the physicians who performed abortions and women who obtained them. Although most authors who discuss the midwifery shift do not make any mention of a role played by the issue of abortion, it has been addressed and supported by primary sources. This raises the question, why is abortion not discussed in histories on the medicalization of childbirth by other authors?  The objectives of this paper are historical and histographic. First, it will present the evidence on the use of abortion as a political tool employed by some policy makers, physicians and the media to discourage women from choosing midwives for their childbirth care. Second, it will analyze possible reasons why this topic is not addressed by the majority of historians of childbirth in 19th Century North America. Are the authors concerned about the varying social views of abortion, the associated politics, the lack of primary sources, or are they personally uncomfortable with the subject? Only the authors themselves can truly know their reasons for neglecting the subject of abortion in their work, but this analysis will show how issues that influence historians determine the version of the past that is produced and propagated into the present and the future. Borst CG. Catching Babies: the Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. Bourgeault B, Davis-Floyd R, eds. Reconceiving Midwifery. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. Dodd DE, Gorham D, eds. Caring and Curing: Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1994. Wertz DC, Wertz RW. Lying In; a History of Childbirth in America (expanded edition published 1989 by Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz) New York: Free Press; London: Macmillan, 1977. Reagan LJ. Linking midwives and abortion in the Progressive Era. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1995; 69(4):569-98. Reagan LJ. When Abortion Was a Crime, Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973. London: University of California Press, 1997.

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Day, Malcolm. "Developing Benchmarks For Prior Learning Assessment: An Exploratory Study." American Journal of Health Sciences (AJHS) 2, no. 2 (2011): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ajhs.v2i2.6628.

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Prior Learning Assessment (or PLA) has assumed a new importance for Nurse Education in the UK as the Nursing and Midwifery Council has recently indicated that up to 50% of the pre registration nursing programme could be achieved by an individual –through an assessment of their prior learning. [1]. However, despite the emergence of PLA guidelines for higher education institutions [2], the assessment of prior learning in UK universities is still: "Characterized by inconsistency and lack of coherence.” [3] .This paper discusses the results of an exploratory study, which attempted to make the practice of PLA in UK Schools of Nursing clearer and much more explicit. A benchmarking approach is used, based on original work conducted within North America [4]. The findings show that benchmarks for PLA can identify the key purpose; functions and activities associated with the PLA Adviser and PLA Assessor role. Also, contrary to the literature PLA methodology is not based on any particular ideology. Rather, it appears to be context dependent and is more likely to be influenced by: (a) the needs of the individual; (b) the time and resources that are available; and (c) university regulations. This finding suggests that a more eclectic approach towards PLA might now be emerging within UK Schools of Nursing. Each of these findings is now the subject of further study.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "North American midwifery"

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Freeze, Rixa Ann Spencer. "Born free: unassisted childbirth In North America." Diss., University of Iowa, 2008. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/202.

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Unassisted childbirth--giving birth at home without a midwife or physician present--emerged as a movement in mid-20th century North America. While only a small number of women choose to give birth unassisted, its significance extends far beyond its numbers. Unassisted birth illuminates trends in maternity care practices that drive, and sometimes force, women to choose unassisted birth. It also is part of a larger set of connected values and lifestyle choices, including home schooling, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, ecological awareness, cloth diapering, sustainable living, and alternative medicine. Finally, the emergence of UC as a conscious birth choice requires a re-examination of how we understand, frame, and interpret childbirth paradigms. There is very little written about unassisted birth in the academic world, although media reports on the practice have become increasingly prevalent since 2007. This dissertation begins the conversation for a scholarly inquiry into unassisted birth. My research is based primarily on interviews, essay-response surveys, and archives of internet discussion groups. After setting unassisted birth in historical context, I explain why women make this choice; the knowledge sources they privilege; how they understand the concepts of safety, risk, and responsibility, and their complex and sometimes contradictory relationship with midwifery. I also examine midwifery, and to a smaller degree, obstetrical, perspectives on unassisted birth, focusing on how birth attendants who are sympathetic to UC reconcile that with their training and experience attending births. Unassisted birth has changed the core questions we need to ask about birth. Instead of home or hospital?, natural or epidural?, or midwife or obstetrician?, questions asked by existing models of childbirth, unassisted birth poses a different set of core questions: Is birth disturbed or undisturbed? Is it social or intimate? managed or intuitive? attended or unattended?

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Allemang, Elizabeth Mae. "Alegal Midwives: Oral History Narratives of Ontario Pre-legislation Midwives." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35553.

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This study examines the oral histories of midwives who practiced in Ontario without legal status in the two decades prior to the enactment of midwifery legislation on December 31, 1993. The following questions are answered: Who were Ontario’s pre-legislation midwives? What inspired and motivated them to take up practice on the margins of official health care? Current scholarship on late twentieth century Ontario midwifery focuses on a social scientific analysis of midwifery’s transition from a grassroots movement to a regulated profession. Pre-legislation midwives are commonly portrayed as a homogenous group of white, educated, middle class women practicing a “pure” midwifery unmediated by medicine and the law. Analysis of the oral history narratives of twenty-one “alegal” Ontario midwives reveals more complex and nuanced understandings of midwives and why they practiced during this period. The midwives’ oral histories make an important contribution to the growing historiography on modern Canadian midwifery.

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Freeze, Rixa Ann Spencer Lawrence Susan C. Raeburn John. "Born free unassisted childbirth In North America /." 2008. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/202.

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Books on the topic "North American midwifery"

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Thomas, B. L. Report on traditional aboriginal midwifery in Ontario: Phase I. s.n.]., 1993.

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Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe. Routledge, 2001.

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Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe. Routledge, 2001.

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In This Body: Kaqchikel Maya and the Grounding of Spirit. University of New Mexico Press, 2015.

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Book chapters on the topic "North American midwifery"

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Yarger, Lisa. "A World of Confusion and Fog." In Lovie. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630052.003.0027.

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This chapter explores how, unknown to Lovie, an underground home birth movement has quietly thrived in North Carolina in the several decades since the passage of the 1983 midwifery bill outlawing the practice of lay midwifery. This chapter also chronicles the founding in 1992 of a master’s level midwifery training program at East Carolina University in Greenville, a program that brought certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) into the eastern part of the state to train, teach and work. Two CNMs, Laurie Irwin-Pinkley and Maj-Liz Downey, befriend Lovie and facilitate her connection to the North Carolina chapter of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). Lovie is flattered by their recognition of her as a pioneer but befuddled by the changes in her profession that make it difficult for her to identify completely with the younger nurse-midwives. Lovie tries and fails to understand her place in the new midwifery landscape.

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Yarger, Lisa. "Political Showdown." In Lovie. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630052.003.0025.

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This chapter explores the resurgence of interest in home birth and midwifery (primarily among college-educated white women) as a result of second-wave feminism. Midwives such as Ina May Gaskin begin challenging the physician-controlled model of birth seen by many women as oppressive. Midwife-attended home birth also becomes popular among conservative Christians, who provide a new client base for Lovie. This chapter examines the response of the medical establishment to women's demands for more personalized care and details the political showdown in the early 1980s in which the North Carolina Medical Society pressured legislators to oppose home birth, despite Midwifery Study Committee findings about the safety of planned, attended home births. House Bill 814, passed in 1983, recognizes certified nurse-midwives for the first time and ends the licensing system for lay midwives. The bill also provides a “grandmother clause” for midwives who have practiced at least ten years. Lovie is one of two women to benefit from the exemption: although trained as a nurse-midwife, she did not maintain membership in the American College of Midwifery or seek to fulfill updated membership requirements. The other, Lisa Goldstein, becomes legendary among a new generation of midwives who have no idea of Lovie’s existence.

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Kline, Wendy. "From El Paso to Lexington." In Coming Home. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190232511.003.0006.

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Chapter 5, “From El Paso to Lexington: The Formation of the Midwives Alliance of North America,” closely tracks the push to organize direct-entry midwives, beginning with the first international conference of practicing midwives in El Paso in 1978 and ending with the formation of MANA. Ideologically, many of them viewed midwifery as a feminist endeavor that enabled women to reclaim their bodies, rather than a medical profession. Barred from membership in the already established American College of Nurse Midwives, they sought to create a more inclusive organization that could provide them with the protection, legitimacy, and visibility needed to sustain and grow their trade. This would turn out to be an enormously challenging task.

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"Midwives Alliance of North America." In A History of Midwifery in the United States. Springer Publishing Company, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/9780826125385.0011.

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Yarger, Lisa. "God Dealt Well with the Midwives." In Lovie. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630052.003.0034.

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While pregnant, the narrator visits Lovie (who is still living with her daughter Nancy while her house is being repaired post-fire) and ponders how Lovie’s life looks like a stretched out version of the Book of Job. The narrator meets and interviews younger midwives around North Carolina (including CNMs at a North Carolina chapter meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives) to help her put Lovie's career in context. Influenced both by these women and by her relationship with Lovie, the narrator considers delivering at the Women’s Birth and Wellness Center in Chapel Hill, a free-standing birth center, and ultimately decides to have a home birth with nurse-midwife Nancy Harman in attendance. This chapter also unfolds the story of the narrator’s home birth. Before moving with her husband and daughter to Munich, Germany to open a bookshop, the narrator visits Lovie with her baby and realizes she knows everything she needs to know to finish the book on Lovie.

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"Life and Works." In The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay, edited by Karen Green. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934453.003.0001.

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This biographical introduction begins with the formation of Catharine Macaulay’s political ideas from when, as Catharine Sawbridge, she lived at the family estate. It follows her through her mature development as the celebrated female historian, to her death in 1791, as Mrs. Macaulay Graham. It notes the influence on her of writings of John Milton, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke as well as other republican works. It covers her marriage to the physician and midwife George Macaulay, and sets out the circumstances which led to the composition, and influence of, her History of England from the Accession of James I (HEAJ). The content of her histories, political philosophy, ethical and educational views, and criticisms of the philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Edmund Burke are sketched, and it is argued that her enlightenment radicalism was grounded in Christian eudaimonism, resulting in a form of rational altruism, according to which human happiness depends on the cultivation of the self as a moral individual. It deals with her engagement with individuals in North America before and after the American Revolution, in particular her exchanges with, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Rush, and George Washington, and also recounts her contacts with influential players in the French Revolution, in particular, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti count of Mirabeau. The introduction concludes with her influence on Mary Wollstonecraft and an overview of her mature political philosophy as summarized in her response to Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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