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Midwifery Today, Issue 78, Summer 2006

Issue 78: Midwifery Education
Theme: Midwifery Education
Cover photo by Deborah Tillson/Storybook Portraits

Departments:

4 Poetry
5 From the Editor—Aspiring and Student Midwives Are Our Hope for the Future
6 Networking
6 Tricks of the Trade
7 Midwifery Model of Care—Phase II: Midwife Education
8 Marion's Message
61 Media Reviews
64 News
70 Classified Advertising
70 Calendar
73 Photo Album

Features:

10 Midwives as Educators: Teaching in the 21st CenturyDaphne Singingtree
14 Apprenticeship: Do You Really Want One?—Renata Hillman
16 The Secret—Amanda Hamilton
17 Traditional Midwifery, a Traditional Vocation—Casey Makela
18 Always a Beginner—Beth Leianne Curtis
20 Pathways to Midwifery: ACNM—Jerri Hobdy
21 School of Authentic Midwifery: A Student's Journey in Finding a School—Jennifer Summerfeldt
22 The Old Midwife—Mary Doezema
23 Why Accreditation? MEAC and Midwifery Education—Mary Ann Baul
24 The Flowering of Midwifery EducationElizabeth Davis
26 US Direct Entry Midwifery Programs
27 North American Registry of Midwives
28 50 Ways to Protest a VBAC DenialBarbara Stratton
30 Mother Blessing Ceremony: Renaming a Good Idea—Chantel Haynes
31 Why Apprentices?—Cynthia Luxford
32 Midwifery and Conceptual Models of Nursing: A Comparison (diagram online)Pam Embler
34 Neonatal Skin: Back to Nature?-—Laura A. Stokowski
36 The Still Point before Surgery—Serena Jenne
40 The Business of Midwifery: Billing and the Superbill—Linda Lieberman

International Midwife:

43 Cards & Letters
44 Africa: Journey to the MotherlandAstrid Grove
48 The Very Oldest Profession—Robin Lopez Lysne
50 Having a Child in Croatia—Iva Podhorsky Štorek and Barbara Finderle
51 Judith Orozco Cassillas, a Living National Treasure of Mexico—Sarah Proechel
54 Promoting an Obstetrics Department in the Suburbs to Safeguard Its Future—Albin Thöni
56 One Birth, Two Worlds: A Personal Encounter with "Traditional" and "Modern" Maternal Health Care in Northern Tanzania—Gemma Burford
62 Birthing with Dignity: A Tool for Working with Traditional Indian Dais—Lesley Branagan

 

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