Risk and choice in maternity care

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book explores the complex interrelationship between risk and choice in maternity care, taking a close look at how "high" and "low" risk are defined and what impact this has on a woman's ability to exercise informed choices throughout pregnancy. It offers an international collaboration that highlights different perspectives on debated issues, with chapters on maternity care in the UK, United States, Australia, and Ireland contributed by midwives, obstetricians, risk management experts, and sociologists. The aim of this book is to illustrate the changing reality of risk management as it relates to maternity care, and to highlight risk management concerns that may limit the choices available to pregnant women.

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"The Risk-Choice Paradox 2. Healthcare’s Hidden Risks 3. Why Informed Consent is Important in the Exercise of Maternal Choice 4. The Instability of Risk: Women’s Perspectives on Risk and Safety in Birth 5. Risk and Choice in Maternity Care: A View from APEC (Action on Pre-eclampsia) 6. Risk and Choice: A View from an Inner City Teaching Hospital (UK) 7. Risk and Choice: Remote and Rural Risk Issues (UK) 8. Risk and Normality in Maternity care: Revisioning Risk for Normal Childbirth 9. Risk Discourse in the UK: An Obstetric Perspective 10. Conjuring Choice While Subverting Autonomy: Home Birth and Independent Midwifery in Ireland 11. Risk Perception and Analysis in Australia 12. Choices, Collaboration and Outcomes in Australia 13. Risk and Choice: A US Midwifery Perspective 14. Risk and Choice: Knowledge and Control"