General Lying-in Hospital: man-midwifery recalled

Some Observations on Midwifery in General Practice

THIS paper by a family doctor practising midwifery for the past fourteen vears describes how the immeasurable social changes and scientific advances have altered the pre-1945 idea of the role of the general practitioner in obstetrics. After war service and through the kindness of the visiting staff of the Royal Maternitv Hospital, I became-with five other service doctors-a resident postgraduate...

The making of man-midwifery: childbirth in England, 1660–1770

history of social policy, for it is all too easy to assume that identification and classification somehow make it easier to "target" areas of special need. What the municipal authorities seem to have taken for granted is the interpenetration of problems such as poverty, health, training and homelessness, acknowledging thereby the social basis of many medical problems and the need to encourage e...

The General Medical Council and Midwifery

Emotion work and boundary maintenance in hospital-based midwifery.

OBJECTIVE To identify and explore the emotion work of hospital-based midwives. DESIGN An ethnographic approach using focus groups, observations and interviews. SETTING South Wales, UK. PARTICIPANTS Phase one of the study: self-selected convenience sample of 27 student midwives in first and final years of 3-year (direct entry) and 18-month (post-nursing) programmes. Phase two: opportunisti...

Measurement of lying and standing blood pressure in hospital.

Measuring lying and standing blood pressure (BP) is an important clinical observation in older hospital inpatients. This is because a drop in BP on standing, known as orthostatic hypotension (OH) is common in older people and in acute illness and, therefore, in hospital patients. OH increases the risk of a fall in hospital. Simple measures such as changes in medication or rehydration can reduce...