WOMENSTD 324 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 5: Nurse Practitioner, Prenatal Care, Childbirth
12 Apr 2016
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Explanaion for the excesses is the vision of the poor, uninsured pregnant woman and her copious medical needs possessed by the legislators, physicians, epidemiologists, and other policy makers who imagined the program and encased it in law. Few know they can request one of the three. Few also know which one is seeing them during their visits: diferences between midwives and physicians. Midwives are viewed as amazing while physicians are viewed as ine . Midwife paients can deliver in the birthing center where they are not conined to a bed. Insistent medical manipulaion of the pregnant body mandated by medicaid is a limited atempt to temporarily recify that situaion. Within that atempt is an implicit acknowledgement of the unjust nature of the. Draw the pregnant woman"s partner into increased paricipaion in her (and his own) transformaive process, serving the same funcions as a ritual of couvade in many primiive socieies.
