Abstract

This new edition of a highly regarded classic midwifery text encourages critical thinking about the art and science of midwifery. Promoting the idea that thinking directly affects practice, it offers a clear explanation of the concepts, theories and models that shape effective evidence-informed care for women.
 
A host of expert contributors join best-selling author Rosamund Bryar in this extensively updated and reworked edited collection, which:

• captures the expansion of midwifery research that has tested and developed the field's traditional theory base
• highlights the value of theory from other disciplines - from psychology to ergonomic design
• incorporates the professional experience of theorists from across the world.

With engaging end-of-chapter activities, this insightful book challenges you to reconsider the knowledge at the heart of your own midwifery practice. It is the essential text on midwifery's growing theoretical framework for students and practitioners alike.
ROS BRYAR Professor of Community and Primary Care Nursing and Head of Public Health and Primary Care Unit at City University, London, England.
MARLENE SINCLAIR Professor of Midwifery Research in the Nursing Research Institute at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.

a sophisticated and intelligent text that provides a fresh and engaging look at the contribution of theory to midwifery knowledge, practice and research' – Dr Sarah Church, Senior Lecturer, School of Health, University of Northampton, UK

'Pertinent, accurate and meaningful' - Kathleen A. Menasche, Clinical Assistant Professor, Texas State University San Marcos School of Nursing, USA 

'...an invaluable resource...done in a nurturing and supportive manner.' - Nursing Standard (5 stars)