Contents Front cover; Front matter; Copyright; Dedication; Preface to the 16th edition; Preface to the 10th edition; Table of contents; 1 Anatomy; The vulva; Labia majora; Bartholin's gland; Labia minora; The vagina; Relations of vagina; Anterior relation; Posterior relations; Lateral relations; Superior relations; The uterus; Perimetrium; Myometrium; Endometrium; Position of the uterus; The ut…
Contents Obstetric history taking and examination -- Antenatal care -- Normal fetal development and growth -- Assessment of fetal wellbeing -- Prenatal diagnosis -- Antenatal obstetric complications -- Multiple pregnancy -- Pre-term labour -- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy -- Medical complications : diabetes, renal cardiac haematological/sle others -- Perinatal infections -- Labour : norma…
Contents Front Cover; Book title; Contents; The Ten Teachers; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; 1. The midwife and modern maternity care; 2. Conception, implantation and embryology; 3. Normal fetal development and growth; 4. Physiological changes in pregnancy; 5. Antenatal care; 6. Antenatal imaging and assessment of fetal well-being; 7. Prenatal diagnosis; 8. …
Contents Part I: Introduction -- A life-course perspective for women's health care / Calvin J. Hobel and Joseph C. Gambone -- Clinical approach to the patient / Joseph C. Gambone -- Female reproductive anatomy and embryology / Joseph C. Gambone -- Female reprodutive physiology / Joseph C. Gambone. Part II: Obstetrics -- Endocrinology of pregnancy and parturition / Joseph C. Gambone and Calvin …
The world of midwifery is changing, whilst much stays the same: the importance of the relationship with women and the need for autonomous professional practise by midwives able to provide sensitive effective care, based on a foundation of scientific understanding; the world we work in is changing. Life and the world of midwifery practice grows more complicated, the knowledge base is expanding, …