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- Title
The Shifting Landscape of Health and Medicine: Implications for Childbirth Education.
- Authors
Hinote, Brian P.; Wasserman, Jason Adam
- Abstract
In this paper we briefly discuss recent and ongoing transformations in medicine and health care, along with the ways that these changes affect professional groups like childbirth educators, midwives, doulas, and other providers. These shifts raise important questions (and opportunities) for a variety of childbirth professions as they negotiate the rapidly changing landscape of health and medicine. Using a sociological perspective, we connect various social and institutional shifts emanating from these broad transformations, as well as discuss how they have the potential to affect health care professionals and practitioners across various dimensions of childbirth education and care.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILDBIRTH; MEDICAL care; CHILDBIRTH education; SOCIAL change; HISTORY
- Publication
International Journal of Childbirth Education, 2012, Vol 27, Issue 2, p69
- ISSN
0887-8625
- Publication type
Article