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A pleasing birth : midwives and maternity care in the Netherlands by Raymond De Vries; Raymond G. De Vries is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.

What is A pleasing birth : midwives and maternity care in the Netherlands about?

Women have long searched for a pleasing birth—a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and baby gazing into each other's eyes. For women in the Netherlands, such a birth is defined as one at home under the care of a midwife. In a country known for its liberal approach to drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, government support for midwife-attended home birth is perhaps its most radical policy: ev

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Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.

Author
Raymond De Vries; Raymond G. De Vries
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press ; Temple University Press
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9781280127854
Category
medicine
Subjects
Medical, Sociology, Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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