Letter from Europe: Home birth reborn

Birth

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-78

  Kitzinger, Sheila ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR; MIDWIFE; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS;

EID: 40149090516     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2007.00216.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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