Rediscovering birth / Sheila Kitzinger.
- Kitzinger, Sheila
- Date:
- 2000
- Books
About this work
Description
"In Rediscovering Birth, the universal experience of pregnancy and childbirth is explored and Sheila Kitzinger looks closely at feelings and behaviour in pregnancy, the spiritual experience of giving birth, the role of the midwife, the bonds that are traditionally formed between mother and midwife and ideas about birth in many different cultures, and she asks how we can learn from them." -- Jacket.
Publication/Creation
London : Little, Brown, 2000.
Physical description
256 pages : illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm
Contributors
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Searching questions about birth -- A small miracle -- The journey to birth -- Birth & spirit -- The god-sibs : woman-to-woman help -- Midwives -- The birth dance -- Birth & touch -- Sanctuary & renewal -- Can we learn anything from other cultures?
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesM27860
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 0316853933
- 9780316853934