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Joy at Birth: An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry

Joy at Birth: An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry

Crowther, Susan

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery

Medical ReferenceWomen's HealthOccult

ISBN10: 1032089881
ISBN13: 9781032089881
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

To be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context.

Through exploration of experiences at birth this book explores joy at birth, which is often ignored and overlooked beyond the activities that help to ensure survival. This book draws on a collection of stories of birth from mothers, birth partners, obstetricians and midwives, that demonstrate joy at birth across professional groups and in different types of births and locations with or without technological interventions. Each chapter introduces stories of joy that highlight embodied, spatial and relational meanings. Employing the Heideggerian notion of a human being, it sketches out an ontological focus that draws our gaze to the everyday taken-for-granted ways of being at birth.

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