Ethics and Midwifery , 2nd Edition

Description

Midwives increasingly have faced challenging ethical issues that have clinical and legal implications, they have not always been adequately prepared to deal with them. This book adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to guide the student and practitioner through dilemmas that commonly occur in clinical practice and to highlight the changing face of the midwifery profession.

Key Features

Provides a multi-disciplinary approach to guide midwives through dilemmas which occur in clinical practice

Anexcellent team of contributors from the field of midwifery and ethics make this an essential purchase for every midwifery student and practitioner

Readership

Midwifery students and practitioners

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Lucy Frith, BA, MPhil, Lecturer in Ethics, Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, UK and Heather Draper, BA, MA, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics, The Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham