Cheri Van Hoover

Minority Populations and Health

By TA LaVeist. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005. 332 pages.

Innovation in Health Policy Education: Project-Based Service Learning at a Distance for Graduate Midwifery Students.

65.00, hardback. Surviving in the Hour of Darkness: The Health and Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women By GS Harding, ed. Calgary, Alberta, CA: University of Calgary Press, 2005. 314 pages.

Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk, 6th Edition

23.00, paperback.

Body Piercing: Motivations and Implications for Health

Core competencies for midwifery practice include an understanding of systems of health care delivery and advocacy for legislation and policy initiatives that promote quality in health care. Todays rapidly changing health care environment, due in part to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, mandates that midwives possess greater literacy in health policy and comfort with political action than ever before. Frequently disinterested in politics and intimidated by the policymaking process, student midwives lack the foundational knowledge and practical skills needed to meet this professional obligation. The Midwifery Institute of Philadelphia University graduate program educates both student nurse-midwives and student midwives in health policy using an innovative, project-based service-learning approach featuring real-world collaborative experiences. This novel teaching style is ideally suited for instruction at a distance because of the diversity of experience brought to the virtual classroom by students in widely disparate geopolitical locations. As students accomplish measurable objectives within their individually developed projects and reflect with classmates about their experiences, they feel empowered to effect change and report lower perceived barriers to future political engagement.

Midwifing the End of Life: Expanding the Scope of Modern Midwifery Practice to Reclaim Palliative Care.

When patients are asking important questions about the effects of drugs on the foetus and newborn, this resource provides the practitioner with a reliable database and the answers to these critical questions. Since the publication of the first edition in 1983, this book has provided a quick, definitive reference to all the risks and benefits of medications used during pregnancy and lactation. This classic reference is available in an edition that is fully revised and easy-to-use. The authors have carefully evaluated the available research for you, focusing on human rather than animal data to establish risk factors for over 500 drugs, including information on drugs such as marijuana, Cocaine, Valproic acid, amphetamines, cardiac drugs, anthelmics and much more. Easy and accessible format; each drug is concisely described and divided into sections which list its generic name and pharmacological class.

The Estrogen Alternative: A Guide to Natural Hormonal Balance, 4th edition

Body piercing has evolved from a behavior once considered extreme to an accepted choice among the general population. Earlobe piercing is so common that it is now considered a normative behavior. The motivations for choosing body piercing have changed and are associated with piercing site and number of piercings chosen by the individual. Meanings ascribed to body piercing were traditionally related to enhanced sexual desirability and experience, but now range from the innocuous, such as a fashion statement, to the risk laden, such as nonsuicidal self-injury. Professional piercers are the primary providers of piercing services, and people will first turn to their professional piercer for advice when complications of the site arise, thus delaying entry into needed health care. Health care providers are often perceived as uninformed, dismissive, and biased against individuals, who are pierced particularly those with multiple piercings and piercings in intimate areas of the body. Common complications of piercing include infection, bleeding, and problems relating to tissue trauma and scarring, and are reported by nearly 50% of individuals who are pierced. Metal allergies can develop as a result of piercing, making the type of jewelry used for body adornment an important consideration. Additionally, management of the piercing site becomes critical under certain conditions, such as during pregnancy and birth, lactation, or surgery. This article provides information supporting midwives and other health care providers to offer anticipatory guidance and health care services in a nonjudgmental and supportive manner to individuals choosing body piercing.

The Female Pelvis: Anatomy and Exercises

Historically, midwives held an important role in society as cradle-to-grave practitioners who eased individuals, families, and communities through difficult transitions across the life span. In the United States, during the first half of the 20th century, physicians assumed care for people during birth and death, moving these elements of the human experience from homes into the hospital setting. These changes in practice resulted in a dehumanization of birth and death experiences and led to detachment from what it means to be human among members of society. There is a current movement across the United States to incorporate palliative care and hospice care into both the home setting and the inpatient setting. Through their education and training, certified nurse-midwives/certified midwives (CNMs/CMs) are well equipped to serve as hospice and palliative care clinicians. Current midwives, skilled in assisting women and families through the transition of pregnancy to motherhood, can use their education and skills to help individuals and their families through the transition from life to death. The similarities between these states of the human experience (pregnancy to birth and terminal illness to death) allow for a fluidity between these experiences from the midwife perspective. The many parallels between these 2 elements of the human condition include stress, anxiety, and pain. Training in holistic approaches to symptom management and supporting individuals through difficult experiences (eg, birth) gives midwives a unique perspective that is readily translatable to assist individuals and families through the passage between life and death.

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology

By Raquel Martin and Judi Gerstung, Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2005. 352 pages.

Misconceptions: truth, lies, and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood. By Naomi Wolf. New York, NY: Doubleday Press, 2001, 326 pages.

16.95, softcover.

24.95 hardcover.

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