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Pain in Childbearing and its Control: Key Issues for Midwives and Women
By: Rosemary MandereBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
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Focusing on the mother's experience of pain and her contribution to its control, this accessible text covers the background to historical and scientific understanding of pain and considers methods of researching and measuring pain.
Now in its 2nd edition, Pain in Childbearing and its Control explores pregnancy, labour and puerperal pain, along with fetal and neonatal pain. As well as approaching the topic in considerable depth, the word 'pain' is interpreted broadly. Throughout the text, research-based theoretical approaches to pain and pain control are presented within the context of care. The possibility of caring interventions being iatrogenic, or aggravating the woman's pain, lends this book a perceptively political orientation. Pain in Childbearing and its Control will be invaluable to midwives and a wide range of care providers who seek to assist the woman in coping with her experience of childbearing and any associated pain.
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| Title of eBook: Pain in Childbearing and its Control: Key Issues for Midwives and Women | |
| Release Date: 12-07-2010 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Pain in Childbearing and its Control: Key Issues for Midwives and Women
Chapter One
Pasts and peoples
General background
When thinking or writing about any form of pain, I have a tendency to generalise my ideas. I don't think that I am unique in this respect. This is an inevitable way of attempting to manage an otherwise unmanageable concept. As the reader, though, you should keep in mind the artifice of such a strategy. Pain is above all an individual phenomenon. Only the person experiencing it is able to really know what that pain is like. Other people may think that they know what the pain is like. They may have experienced pain in the same part of the body, or possibly due to a similar cause, in the past. Alternatively, they have witnessed or even provided care for a number of people and think they know what a person who is experiencing this form of pain looks like. All of these people, whether they are experienced or whether they are witnesses, are mistaken. They are making assumptions which are either weakly founded or totally unfounded. Obviously, such unfounded assumptions carry serious implications for the person actually experiencing the pain.
For the present, though, I feel obliged to encourage the reader to keep at the forefront of his or her mind this `health warning':
Do not allow yourself to be lulled into assuming that you know what another person's pain is – that way lies danger.
This health warning applies not only to modern day experiences and practices. I venture to suggest that such a cautious approach should be applied equally to former peoples in their own times and settings.
In this chapter I plan to trace, first, the ways in which atti
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