PHA-Exchange> Hesperian's New Book Release

[Tawnia Queen]

The Hesperian Foundation, publishers of Where There Is No Doctor, proudly 
announce our newest release:

A Book for Midwives - Care for pregnancy, birth, and women's health
by Susan Klein, Suellen Miller, and Fiona Thomson

Midwives are essential caregivers in the worldwide struggle for maternal 
and child health. Appropriate information and training empower midwives and 
other health workers to provide the care needed to reduce dangers in 
childbirth. To help in this effort, Hesperian has released a new edition of 
A Book for Midwives --reorganized and extensively revised to better support 
care during labor and management of obstetric emergencies, and expanded to 
include lifesaving reproductive health information.

This beautiful, easy-to-use book includes updated information on HIV/AIDS 
in pregnancy and birth, breastfeeding, preventing infection, and family 
planning, and new chapters on pelvic exams, IUD insertion and removal, 
helping a woman when a pregnancy ends early, and manual vacuum aspiration. 
Heavily illustrated, clearly written and developed with the participation 
of dozens of community-based midwives, midwifery trainers, and medical 
specialists, A Book for Midwives is equally useful in a rural village or 
urban clinic, as a training manual for students or as a reference for an 
experienced midwife.

"The Hesperian Foundation has again created a clearly written and 
culturally sensitive book [for] healthcare providers throughout the 
world...an excellent resource providing accurate technical information."
- Kathy Herschderfer, Secretary General, International Confederation of 
Midwives

"Comprehensive...beautifully written and illustrated...our best tool so far 
for preventing unnecessary deaths."
- Ina May Gaskin, author of Spiritual Midwifery

View and download sample chapters here: 
http://www.hesperian.org/midwives_chapters.htm
To order, please contact us at: 888/729-1796,  or at bookorders at hesperian.org
You can also order this book online at www.hesperian.org Thank you for your 
support!



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Tawnia Queen
International Publications Associate
Hesperian Foundation -- Publishing for Community Health and Empowerment
1919 Addison Street, #304
Berkeley, CA 94704 USA
Phone: 510-845-1447, ext. 219   Fax: 510-845-9141
E-mail: tawnia at hesperian.org    http://www.hesperian.org
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