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Contents

List of Figures

Foreword
Ronnie Frankenberg

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

Chapter 1. From Tradition to Modernity: Time and Childbirth in Historical Perspective
Christine McCourt and Fiona Dykes

Chapter 2. Cosmologies, Concepts and Theories: Time and Childbirth in Cross-cultural Perspective
Christine McCourt

PART II: TIME AND CHILDBIRTH PRACTICES

Chapter 3. Counting Time in Pregnancy and Labour
Soo Downe and Fiona Dykes

Chapter 4. The Progress of Labour: Orderly Chaos?
Clare Winter and Margie Duff

Chapter 5. Time and Midwifery Practice
Trudy Stevens

Chapter 6. "Waiting on Birth": Management of Time and Place in a Birth Centre
Denis Walsh

Chapter 7. Management of Time in Aboriginal and Northern Midwifery Settings
Gisela Becker

PART III: TIME AND CHILDBIRTH EXPERIENCES

Chapter 8. Narrative Time: Stories, Childbirth and Midwifery
Ólöf Ólafsdóttir and Mavis Kirkham

Chapter 9. How Long Have I Got? Time in Labour: Themes from Women's Birth Stories
Christine McCourt

Chapter 10. "Feeding All the Time": Women's Temporal Dilemmas around Breastfeeding in Hospital
Fiona Dykes

Chapter 11. Living with "Uncertainty": Women's Experience of Breastfeeding in the Current Japanese Social Context
Naoko Hashimoto

Conclusion

Notes on Contributors
Index

Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time

Edited by Christine McCourt
Foreword by Ronnie Frankenberg

272 pages, 7 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-586-6 Hb Published (September 2009)

eISBN 978-0-85745-542-0
web ISBN 978-0-85745-542-0