Culture, Religion and Childbearing

This book will enable health care professionals, particularly midwives, to understand the spectrum of cultural and religious issues that affect the quality of care that they can give to women and their families during child bearing. They are encouraged to reflect on their own attitudes and assumptions and are offered ways of improving their communication skills in this very sensitive area. Research based, the book also draws on interviews conducted specifically for this publication. In a plural society, everyone involved in providing, planning and managing women's health services, requires special skills to meet individual cultural and religious needs. This unique and sensitive book presents down-to-earth, practical and constructive ways of enhancing practice in all areas of women's health care.

ISBN 0750620501   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780750620505 (What's this?)   Pages 384 Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences   Volumes 1 Imprint Books for Midwives   Weight (grammes) 537 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 04 Mar 1996   Height (mm) 234 Non-book description xix, 361 p. :   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 00000000   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 362.198200941   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Foreword
		The authors
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction
Pt. 1		Culture, 'Race' and Health Care
1		Culture and difference		3
2		Culture and health care		17
3		Immigration and change		23
4		Racial discrimination in society		27
5		Racial discrimination: health and health care		37
6		Challenging inequalities		48
Pt. 2		Communication
7		Communication in a multiracial society		61
8		Language and culture		69
9		The language barrier		77
10		Communicating across a language barrier		84
11		Working with professional interpreters		89
12		Informal interpreters: a short-term measure		100
13		Written material		105
14		Getting people's names right		109
Pt. 3		Implications for Practice
15		Finding out what people need		121
16		Personal heritage and religious belief		126
17		Families, relationships and roles		133
18		Daily living		137
19		Pregnancy and antenatal care		146
20		Labour and birth		161
21		The postnatal period		172
		More...

"This book demands the reader s recognition of their own culture and beliefs and leads in both a gentle and sometimes challenging way into an understanding of other people s cultural perspectives. It is an essential book for every student of midwifery whether at the beginning of their career or as part of their continuing learning within midwifery practice." "Lea Jamieson, Head of Midwifery and Women s Health Studies, Nightingale Institute, King s College, London."much of relevance for all health care professionals, irrespective of discipline. A real joy to review, this book is good, clearly written, and sensitive. Read it!" "Trudy Stevens, Researcher Practitioner/Anthropologist," MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, September 1996own beliefs have been challenged [by this book] and I have found it useful as a practising midwife. I therefore recommend the book for any health care library, and encourage readers to take time to read the book for maximum benefit."Inprint Multidisciplinary Heal

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