TAILIEUCHUNG - Sustainability, Midwifery and Birth

A student magazine asserts that a key action towards sustainability is ‘don’t have kids’ (Anon. 2008: 29). Another ‘green’ magazine for parents points out that ‘in the US, even having just one child creates a carbon legacy almost six times greater than each parent’s own lifetime carbon emissions’ (McAleer 2009). Sustainability and birthing human children are figured as mutually exclusive. So how do we get an edited collection of essays in a book with both the words ‘sustainability’ and ‘birth’ in the title?. | f SUSTAINABILITY MIDWIFERY AND BIRTH EDITED BY LORNA DAVIES REA DAELLENBACH AND MARY KENSINGTON Sustainability Midwifery and Birth Environmental awareness and sustainability are vitally important concepts in the twenty-first century and as a low environmental impact health care profession midwifery has the potential to stand as a model of excellence. This innovative volume promotes a sustainable approach to midwifery practice philosophy business administration and resource management. Drawing on an interdisciplinary body of knowledge this international collection of experts explore the challenges inviting readers to critically reflect on the issues and consider how they could move to effect changes within their own working environments. Divided into three parts the book discusses The politics of midwifery and sustainability Midwifery as a sustainable health care practice Supporting an ecological approach to parenting. Sustainability Midwifery and Birth identifies existing models of sustainable midwifery practice such as the continuity of care model and highlights the potential for midwifery as a role model for ecologically sound health care provision. This unique book is a vital read for all midwives and midwifery students interested in sustainable practice. Contributors include Sally Baddock Carol Bartle Ruth Deery Nadine Pilley Edwards Ina May Gaskin Megan Gibbons Carolyn Hastie Barbara Katz-Rothman Mavis Kirkham Nicky Leap Ruth Martis Zoe Meleo-Erwin Jenny L. Meyer Jo Murphy-Lawless Mary Nolan Sally Pairman and Sally Tracy. Lorna Davies is a Midwife Lecturer at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology New Zealand. She was formerly a Lecturer in Midwifery at Anglia Ruskin University and is Co-Director of . She still carries a small midwifery caseload as a self-employed midwife. Rea Daellenbach is a Midwife Lecturer at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology New Zealand. She has a ministerial appointment on the .

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