Download or read book The Midwife Challenge written by Sheila Kitzinger and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1988 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandora Issues in Women's Health is a series of investigative books written by women about all aspects of our bodies and health. Each book takes into account women's lives in different countries and cultures and challenges conventional assumptions about health issues which affect us all. international upheavals in maternity care. The book argues that midwives, traditionally seen as meddlesome and superstitious, through their concern for the quality of emotional care given to pregnant women, and poses a challenge to conveyer belt obstetrics. Many want women to have a one-to-one relationship with a midwife who can give continuous care, through pregnancy, birth and after their baby is born. many countries midwives have been relegated to the status of obstetric nurses rather than treated as professionals in their own right. Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Guatemala, the Netherlands and the USA. The position of midwives in different medical systems, in both industrialized and developing countries, is compared, as well as discussing the problems they face and their hopes for the future. woman who has had a baby or intends to have one. Sheila Kitzinger, MBE, is a social anthropologist, author of several books on childbirth and female sexuality including Pregnancy and Childbirth and Freedom and Choice in Childbirth and is on the Executive Committee of the Midwives Information and Resource Service.