TY - BOOK AU - Fahy, Kathleen. AU - Foureur, Maralyn. AU - Hastie, Carolyn. TI - Birth territory and midwifery guardianship: theory for practice, education and research SN - 9780750688703 AV - RG950.B57 PY - 2008/// CY - Philadelphia : PB - Books for Midwives N1 - Include glossary and index; Contents: Section 1: Theories and practices: Power and social construction of birth territory -- Theorising birth territory -- Midwifery guardianship -- Territories of the self and spiritual practices during childbirth -- Section 2: Physiology and the physical space: Creating birth space to enable undisturbed birth -- The spiritual and emotional territory of the unborn baby -- Mindbodyspirit architecture: creating birth space -- Section 3: Midwives, obstetricians and the maternity services: Being a midwife to midwifery services -- Birth territory: the besieged territory of the obstetrician -- From ideal to real: the interface between birth territory and the maternity service organization ER -