Home Birth: The Politics of Difficult Choices

by Mary Nolan

The rhetoric of choice is much used in UK health policy and home birth is one of the three options that women are entitled to choose between when deciding where to have their baby. However, many women making this choice run into considerable opposition from the maternity service.

Home Birth: the politics of difficult choices focuses on the experiences of women whose choices were opposed by health professionals during their pregnancy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415557542
• ISBN13: 9780415557542
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"