Search for dissertations about: "Ingela Lundgren"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Ingela Lundgren.
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1. Releasing and relieving encounters : Experiences of pregnancy and childbirth
Abstract : The experience of childbirth is an important life event for women, which may follow them throughout life. The overall aim of this thesis has been to describe and analyse these experiences from the women's perspective as well as the encounter between the woman and the midwife, and the possibility that a birth plan might improve women's experience of childbirth. READ MORE
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2. Deficient bodies and divine interventions : women, midwives, and the medicalisation of childbirth - a gender perspective
Abstract : Background In Sweden, one of the safest countries to give birth and to be born in, there is a trend towards increasing interventions during childbirth, and fewer women than ever give birth without having their labours induced or augmented, epidural analgesia, or caesarean section. While interventions at times are vital for a safe birth, there is a growing body of evidence demonstrating that an overuse of medical and technological interventions may have adverse effects on woman and child. READ MORE