Healthcare policy is one of contemporary society's most dynamic policy arenas. Heightened pressures such as the global economic crisis, demographic changes, and inequity have increased interest in international, transnational, and global health policy. Yet, new concepts of healthcare may create dive[...]
Midwifery in the developed world is in a state of ferment and change - a phenomenon referred to as the "new midwifery." "Reconceiving Midwifery" offers state-of-the-art analyses of the new midwifery as it is practiced. The authors - social scientists and midwifery practitioners - reflect on regional[...]