Naushin Nagji and Bruce C. Wainman PhD
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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are always components of human milk and can be transferred to infants through lactation. This paper describes the POPs and discusses the risks that POPs in human milk pose to nursing infants. Features of select POPs that are explained in this paper include their uses, toxicity and temporal...
Carolyn Amanda Saunders, BMW, BA *
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Asthma is one of the most common medical disorders among pregnant women and the prevalence of asthma has been increasing due to rising obesity rates and an increase in urban pollutants. Numerous physiological, lifestyle and environmental factors influence the course of asthma in pregnancy. Management of asthma in pregnancy includes education, monitoring...
Susan Howlett, BA, RM, RLC
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There are many sources of potential contamination throughout the uranium cycle, which can affect the health of families for generations to come. Children and fetuses are especially vulnerable due to rapid cell division during physical growth. This is documented internationally through outcomes such as increased incidence in spontaneous abortions, childhood leukemia and other childhood...
Deslyn Wright, BSc, RN, Sandra Gregorovich, MD, Suzanne Hamilton, BSc, RN, Pamela Lukas, BSc, and Warren G. Foster, PhD
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Exposure to environmental contaminants during pregnancy is thought to play a role in the reported increase in developmental abnormalities of the male reproductive tract and rise in the rates in testicular cancer among young men as well as increasing...
Fiona Wardle, RM, SRN, SCM, Terry Beale, RM, BScN, MSN, and Pat Zehr, MD, FRCSC
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This paper documents the development of the midwifery first assist program in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It outlines the need for midwives to expand their scope of practice, provides a short history of the midwife as first assist, the training process, the...
Kathrin Stoll, MA
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Midwifery researchers form an eclectic interdisciplinary group, and utilize a variety of research methods and data analysis approaches. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of midwifery research, there are many opportunities for using mixed-method research designs to enhance theory and knowledge development in this area of inquiry. The benefits of including both quantitative and qualitative research...
Ilene Bell, RM, MA
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The purpose of this study was to examine the dynamics and evolution of inter-professional relationships between registered midwives and nurses in a rural community where midwifery has become well established over twelve years. Interviews explored the responses of maternity nurses, a nurse manager, and a public health nurse to the integration of midwives in...
Leanne Piper, BA Hons
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The concept of midwifery as an independent profession for women, one that gave them the opportunity for autonomy and education, is evident in the historical record of Western Europe in the late Middle Ages. This study looks at several determinant factors that define the concept of professionalization in a medieval context – such as...
Elizabeth Allemang, RM, MA (C)
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New developments in social history have generated scholarly work re-evaluating the history of the witch trials of early modern Europe. This paper explores the claim that the European witch trials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries persecuted midwives. Multiple historical theories of the persecuted midwife-witch are discussed, including those that construct the midwife-witch...
Elaine Carty, RN, MSN, CNM
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Madam Angelique Marguerite du Coudray (b.1712-d.1769) taught 10,000 midwifery students in 70 cities and towns in France at the command of Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI of France. Her goal was to reduce the high rates of infant mortality in France through careful teaching of the technical, ethical and moral aspects of midwifery...