Subject: Midwifery: Bibliography
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
 BOOKS AND RESOURCES ABOUT THE PROFESSION OF MIDWIFERY

There are many books and resources about the history and
profession of midwifery.  The following are ones you might
find of interest:

Arditti, Rita.  Women as Objects: Science and Sexual
Politics.  Science for the People, Sept. 1974.

Arms, Suzanne. Immaculate Deception.  1975. One of the
classics that helped change the practices of birthing in the
USA.

Arms, Suzanne. Immaculate  Deception II--A Fresh Look at
Childbirth.  1994. Discusses what the problems are with
childbirth today and discusses the wisdom of the natural
process of birth.

Armstrong, Penny, and Cheryl Feldman.  A Midwife's Story.
1986. A nurse-midwife learns much about birth and life in
her work with the Amish in Pennsylvania.

Boston Women's Health Book Collective.  The New Our Bodies,
Ourselves.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Conrad,  Peter and Kern, Rochelle, eds.  The Sociology of 
Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives. 2nd Ed.  New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

Courter, Gay. The Midwife. Houghton Mifflin  Co. 1981.  A
novel about the roots of midwifery from Prussia to the
United States.

Courter, Gay.  The Midwife's Advice.  Penguin.  1992. 
Paperback 1994.  A sequel to The Midwife.  A novel about the
relationships of women, birthing and family planning in the 
United States. 

Davis, Elizabeth. Heart and  Hands.  2nd. Edition. 
Celestial Arts, 1992.  A Midwife's guide to pregnancy,
childbirth and the art and science of midwifery. 

Davis-Floyd,  Robbie.  Birth as an American Rite of 
Passage. 1992. A feminist analysis of childbirth rites in
American culture, and offers insightful interviews with
women and health care providers.

Donnison, Jean.  Midwives and Medical Men: A History of
Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women's Rights.   Schocken
books, 1977.

Edwards, Margot  and  Waldorf , Mary. Reclaiming Birth:
History and Heroines of American Childbirth Reform.  The
Crossing Press, 1984

Ehrenreich, Barbara  and  English, Derdre. Witches, Midwives
and Nurses: A History of  Women Healers.   The Feminist
Press, 1973. 

Enkin, Murray,  Keirse, Marc J.N.C., Renfrew, Mary and
Neilson, James.  2nd Edition. A Guide to Effective Care in
Pregnancy and Childbirth.  Oxford University Press, 1995.
This book is about the documented effects of care given and
received during pregnancy and childbirth.  

Gaskin, Ina May.   Spiritual Midwifery.  The Farm, 1978.  A
classic. Contains many birth stories as well as more
technical information for parents and midwives.  Revised in
1980  and 1990.

Goer, Henci.  Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities
Bergin & Garvey, 1995.  Discusses issues facing expectant
parents and supports issues with research abstracts.  A
compact, accurate and understandable reference.

Gordon, Linda.  Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social
History of Birth Control in America.  New York: Grossman,
1977.

Graham, Harvey.  Eternal Eve, the History of Gynaecology and
Obstetrics.  Doubleday & Company, 1951.

Hartley, Carla.  Helping  Hands: The Apprentice Workbook. 
Midwifery and apprenticing are outlined and discussed from
several viewpoints.  This book may change the reader's ideas
about the relationship of midwifery to goal setting, time
management, thinking, learning and studying.

Jacobs, Sandra  and the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
Having  Your Baby with a Nurse-Midwife : Everything  You
Need to Know to Make an Informed Decision.1993.  Explains
for expectant parents and  professionals what a nurse
midwife is.

Janssen, Holt, Patricia A, and Myers, Susan J License 
"Midwife-Attended, Out-of -Hospital Births in Washington
State: Are They Safe? " Birth 1994: 21(3):141-148. 

Kitzinger, Sheila. Homebirth. 1991.  A commonsense guide to
the alternatives to giving birth in the hospital.  Discusses
how to plan a birth in a setting where the laboring woman is
in control.  Evaluates the risks of homebirth and puts them
into perspective.

Kitzinger, Sheila. The Midwife Challenge.  Pandora, 1991. 
Describes midwifery worldwide from a historical perspective.

Kitzinger, Shiela.  The Experience of Childbirth. 3rd
Edition.  Penguin Books. 1972.  Another classic about
midwifery and childbirth, one of the first written in the
1970's which began the new understanding of the value of
childbirth education.

Hubbard, Ruth, Mary Sue Henifin and Barbara Fried (eds.),
Women Looking at Biology Looking at Women.  Boston: G.K.
Hall and Co., 1979.  Read especially pp 163-84 by Marilyn
Grossman and Pauline Bart "Taking men out of menopause."

Leep, Nicky, and  Hunter, Billie.  The Midwife's Tale.  The
untold story of birth in the 1920's , 1930's and 1940's in
Britain.  Challenges assumptions about home birth and the
midwifery profession.  Relates the attitudes and experiences
of our mothers, grand-mothers and great-grandmothers in the
areas of sex, contraception, abortion, work and motherhood.

Lefeber-Mans, Yvonne H. F. Midwives Without Training:
Practices, and beliefs of traditional birth attendants in
Africa, Asia and Latin America.  Van Gorcum & Comp. BV (PO
Box 43, 9400 AA Assen, the Netherlands.  1994.  Intended for
anyone interested in the practices and beliefs of the
traditional midwives, expecially birth attendants,
obstetricians and medical anthropologists.  

Midwife Mailing List:  To subscribe to the Internet Midwife
Mailing List: Send an email with a blank subject line and the message 
  subscribe midwife
in the body to
  majordomo@csv.warwick.ac.uk
To contribute to the list, the internet address is:
  midwife@csv.warwick.ac.uk
  
Midwifery Today. Getting an Education: Paths to Becoming a
Midwife 1995 (Midwifery Today, PO Box 2672  Eugene, OR,
97402. USA. * (503) 344-7438* (800) 743-0974* Fax: (503)
344- 1422* E-Mail: <Midwifery@aol.com>)  Explores the many
ways to becoming a midwife, and working with the birthing
community.  Presents personal stories of midwives and how
they accomplished their goals of becoming a midwife.

Midwifery Today International  Exchange Network:  Directory
1995 (Midwifery Today, PO Box 2672 Eugene OR, 97402 USA*
(503)344-7438*(800) 743-0974* Fax (503)344-1422* E-mail:
<Midwifery@aol.com>) Also available it the Publication 
International Midwife.  The main non-internet link to
international midwifery.

Midwifery Today World Wide Web Page:
<http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/MT/MTindex.html> has links to
various articles and other information provided by Midwifery
Today.  The related What's New
<http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/birthnew.html> is the place
to check first for updated and new versions of the
sci.med.midwifery FAQ, new birthing related resources and an
on-line Directory of e-mail addresses of midwives worldwide.
(Managed by Donna Dolezal Zelzer <djz@efn.org>)


Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Birth.  The Penguin
Group, 1993.  Explores the conventional and alternative
methods of giving birth and the cost of having a child.

Odent, Michel.  Birth Reborn. Pantheon Books. New York, 1984
and 1990.  A discussion of how childbirth can be and what
women want it to be--and how mothers and babies both
benefit.  Physician Odent describes the clinic in Pithiviers
and the success with childbirth by letting women be free to
labor as they wish.

Population Reference Bureau, Inc. 1994: World Population
Data Sheet: Demographic Data and Estimates for the Countries
and Regions of the World.  (Available from Population
Reference Bureau, Inc., 1875 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite
520, Washington, DC 20009-5728  <(202) 438-1100.>) Toll free
# to become a PRB member is 1-800-877-9881 Monday through
Friday, 8:30am-4:30am EST.  

Posner, Judith.  It's all in your head: feminist and medical
models of menopause (strange bedfellows).  Sex Roles. 5:170-
190.

Rothman, Barbara Katz.  In Labor: Women and Power in the
Birthplace. 1991. Presents a systematic feminist analysis of
not only how childbirth is managed in America but why it is
managed the way it is.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.  The Hysterical Women: Sex Roles
in Nineteenth Century America. Social Research. 39.  Winter
1972: 652-78.

Steiger, Carolyn. Becoming a Midwife. Hoogan House 
Publishing, 1987.  Presents a model for apprenticeship 
including clear definitions of the teacher-student
relationship, description of responsibilities and an outline
of a three phase program for becoming a midwife.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher A Midwife's Tale.  Vintage  Books,
New York, 1990.  The life of Martha Ballard, based on her
diary, 1785-1812.  Depicts the family, medical. social,
economic, and religious life of a midwife in pre-industrial
New England.

Varney, Helen. Nurse Midwifery.  2nd Edition. Blackwell
Scientific Publications. 1987. A comprehensive text for
midwifery students.  Extremely well organized, stressing the
concept of understanding and recognizing the normal while
screening for the abnormal.  

Weaver, Pam and Evans, Sharon K.  Practical Skills Guide.
Morningstar Publications. 1994.  A textbook designed to test
the skills of student midwives, either direct-entry or
student nurse-midwives. Currently being used as a required
text in the NARM national certification process. Covers over
100 skills in a step--by-step procedure format.  Includes
forms for documentation of experience.
[Sharon K. Evans email address can be found at the end of this FAQ]

Wertz, Richard W and Dorothy C.  Lying In: A History of
Childbirth in America. Schocken Books, 1977.

WHO, FIGO, ICM  "DEFINITION OF THE MIDWIFE"  as stated in
the recently released document Reproductive Health Care:
Midwifery--its role in Safe Motherhood and Beyond.  World
Health Organization, 1992.
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Excellent resources  for locating the above books and other
information (in addition to your local library) are:

1.  CASCADE HEALTH CARE PRODUCTS, INC/BIRTH AND LIFE 
BOOKSTORE:
141 Commercial Sr., NE
Salem, OR, 97301, USA
(503) 371-4445
1-800-443-9942

2.  Cochrane Database: Information about the Cochrane
Database can be obtained from the Midwifery Today WWW Page. 
The official Web address is:                    
http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/cochrane/reviews/Index.htm

 
The American College of Physicians is the US distributor for
the Cochran Database on Pregnancy and Childbirth (there are
also Canadian and UK distributors).
The US phone is 1-800-523-1546, ext 2600 or 1-215-351-2600
9am-5pm ET
FAX 1-215-351-2799 24 hours/day
Mail: Cochran Collaboration Reviews
American College of Physicians
PO Box 7777
Philadelphia PA 19175--980
USA
refer to priority code V0595
Make sure to refer to Pregnancy and  Childbirth Database.

Single user is $175 ($125 if American College of Physicians
member).  Available for windows, Mac, CD-ROM, DOS.  Multi-
user rates are considerably more, depending on how many
users (i.e. $1000 for 21+ users)

3.  ICEA (International Childbirth Education Association)
ICEA  Bookcenter
PO Box 20048
Minneapolis, MN, 55420, USA. 
1-800-624-4934 & Fax: 1-612-854-8772

4.  MIDIRS : THE resource for midwifery research.  They have
an extensive library and will send by fax or snail mail any
article of listing of references of any subject you request
information about.  Anyone can use their resources but if
you are a member/subscriber you will save when you do
request information.  They also sell books and videos:
MIDIRS
9, Elmdale Road
Clifton
Briston BS8, 1SL.
England, U.K.
Phone: 0272 251791
Fax:   0272 251792

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This  BIBLIOGRAPHY  was prepared by  Pat Sonnenstuhl, ARNP,
CNM  <cnmpat@aol.com> with the supportive assistance of the
following contributors. Suggestions for books and articles
you would like to add are always welcome.  Abstracts or
reviews of new books can be submitted to sci.med.midwifery.

Ms.  Sabrina Cuddy <swnymph@abekas.com>: 
Childbirth Educator, Nursing Mother's Council volunteer,USA

Ms.  Elizabeth Couch <kindredspirit@shop.medchem.purdue.edu>
DEM, USA.

Ms.  Marjorie A. Dacko <WVUY22@prodigy.com>:
DEM, birth center practice, USA

Ms. Sharon K. Evans <BirthRite@aol.com>: writer and and
licensed DEM, birth center practice.  Co-chair for the NARM
Qualified Evaluator Committee

Ms.  Cheri Van Hoover <CheriVH@aol.com> 
CNM, hospital practice, USA.

Mr.  Patrick Hublou <phublou@innet.be>: Midwife, Flanders,
Belgium

Ms.  Deirdre E.E.A. Joukes <065620@pc-lab.fbk.eur.nl>
Consumers-viewpoint, The Netherlands

Ms.  Debbie Pulley <ManaMW@aol.com> MANA  Legislative Chair
CPM, homebirth .practice, USA


Additional documents related to the profession of midwifery
that can be located within sci.med.midwifery include:

INTRODUCTION TO MIDWIFERY
MIDWIFERY IN AUSTRALIA (in development)
MIDWIFERY IN FLANDERS (in development)
MIDWIFERY IN THE UNITED STATES
