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Culture, religion, and childbearing in a multiracial society : a handbook for health professionals / Judith Schott and Alix Henley ; foreword by Dora Opoku.
- Title
- Culture, religion, and childbearing in a multiracial society : a handbook for health professionals / Judith Schott and Alix Henley ; foreword by Dora Opoku.
- Author
- Schott, Judith
- Publication
- Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RA564.86 .S36 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Henley, Alix
- Description
- xix, 361 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Enables health care professionals, particularly midwives, to understand the spectrum of cultural and religious issues that affect the quality of care that they can give to women and their families during child bearing. This book presents practical ways of enhancing practice in all areas of women's health care.
- Subjects
- Ethnicity
- Ethnic groups > Health
- Newborn infants > Medical care
- Pregnant women > Medical care
- Pregnancy > Social aspects
- Childbirth > Social aspects
- Women's health services
- Minorities > Medical care
- Communication Barriers
- Cultural Characteristics
- Maternal Health Services
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- United Kingdom
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Culture, 'race' and health care -- 1. Culture and difference -- 2. Culture and health care -- 3. Immigration and change -- 4. Racial discrimination in society -- 5. Racial discrimination : health and health care -- 6. Challenging inequalities -- References, further reading and useful addresses -- pt. 2. Communication -- 7. Communication in a multiracial society -- 8. Language and culture -- 9. The language barrier -- 10. Communicating across a language barrier -- 11. Working with professional interpreters -- 12. Informal interpreters : a short-term measure -- 13. Written material -- 14. Getting people's names right -- References and further reading -- pt. 3. Implications for practice -- Introduction -- 15. Finding out what people need -- 16. Personal heritage and religious belief -- 17. Families, relationships and roles -- 18. Daily living -- 19. Pregnancy and antenatal care -- 20. Labour and birth -- 21. The postnatal period -- 22. Childbearing losses -- 23. Implications for purchasers, service managers and educators -- References and further reading -- pt. 4. Specific health issues -- Introduction -- 24. Female circumcision, female genital mutilation -- 25. Haemoglobinopathies -- 26. HIV and AIDS -- 27. Refugees and asylum seekers -- 28. Substance use -- 29. Tay-Sachs disease -- References and further reading -- pt. 5. Specific cultures and religions -- Introduction -- Traditional cultures -- 30. Traditional African-Caribbean culture -- 31. Traditional Akan (Ghanaian) culture -- 32. Traditional Chinese culture -- 33. Traditional Somali culture -- 34. Traditional South Asian culture -- Religions -- 35. Christianity -- The Anglican Church -- Roman Catholicism -- Seventh-Day Adventism -- The Pentecostalist churches -- 36. Hinduism -- 37. Islam -- 38. Jehovah's witnesses -- 39. Judaism -- 40. Rastafarism -- 41. Sikhism -- References and further reading -- Appendix I. The population of Great Britain.
- ISBN
- 0750620501 (pbk)
- LCCN
- ^^^96142828^
- OCLC
- 34596616
- SCSB-11233439
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library