The Roar Behind the Silence
Why kindness, compassion and respect matter in maternity care
$23.31
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2015
Summary
For many years, there has been growing concern about the culture of fear that is penetrating maternity services throughout the world, and that the fear felt by maternity care workers is directly and indirectly being transferred to the women and families they serve. The consequences of fear include increased risk of defensive practice, where the woman and her family become potential enemies to those providing her care. In addition, the prevailing risk management and ‘tick box’ culture in mater…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780661803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780661800 |
| Author: | Sheena Byrom, Soo Downe |
| Publisher: | Montag & Martin Limited |
| Imprint: | Pinter & Martin Ltd. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Sheena Byrom
Sheena Byrom has been a midwife since the 1970s, working in hospitals, birth centres and homes, and later becoming a consultant midwife and head of midwifery. She writes and lectures regularly on midwifery topics, chairs the Royal College of Midwives campaign for normal birth, and is a trustee of the Iolanthe Midwifery Trust and a patron of StudentMidwife.net
Professor Soo Downe has worked as a clinical midwife for 15 years. Her research focus is the nature of, and cultures around, normal birth. She introduced the concepts of salutogenesis and complexity into midwifery in her edited book on normal childbirth in 2004. She is a member of the steering group for the recent Lancet Series on Midwifery, and of the WHO Technical Working Group on antenatal guidelines.
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