Emotions in Midwifery and Reproduction

BILLIE HUNTER is Professor of Midwifery at Swansea University, UK. She has published widely and is a regular conference speaker. She is the Chair of the Iolanthe Midwifery Trust.   RUTH DEERY is Reader in Midwifery at the University of Huddersfield. Her research focuses on the maternity services and women's health, with particular interests in service change, public policy and women's experiences of childbirth and midwives' experiences of the organisation of maternity care.

Foreword; A.R.Hochschild.- Preface; P.Smith.- Introduction; R.Deery& B.Hunter.- PART I: EMOTION WORK IN MATERNITY CARE.- Relationship and Reciprocity in Caseload Midwifery; C.MCCourt& T.Stevens.- Women's Emotion Work in the Context of Industrialised, Institutionalised Maternity Services; N.Edwards.- Epidurals not Emotions: Implications of the Care deficit in US Maternity Care; D.Bone.- Community Midwifery 'Performances' and the Presentation of Self; R.Deery.- No Time to Care: Midwifery Work on Postnatal Wards in England; F.Dykes.- Midwives, Infant Feeding and Emotional Turmoil; S.Battersby.- PART TWO: EMOTION WORK AND INFERTILITY.- The Experience of Motherhood Following Successful Infertility Treatment; H.Allan& G.Finnerty.- Midwives' Experiences of Personal Pregnancy Related Loss; C.Bewley.- Uncertainty Around the Possibility of Infertility as a Result of Chlamydial Infection; H.Piercy.- PART THREE: DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL AWARENESS IN HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS.- 'Mixed Messages': Midwives' Experiences of Managing Emotions; B.Hunter.- Inner Knowing and Emotions in the Midwife-Woman Relationship; O.Olafsdottir.- Peeling Onions: Using Drama to Explore Emotion; K.Baker.- Emotion Work Around Reproduction: Supportive or Constraining?; M.Kirkham.