Dear Denis and Kerri:
Thanks and congratulations for bringing us this new journal. What a great way to further midwifery as a strong and scholarly profession.
Carolyn
Carolyn L. Gegor, CNM, MS, FACNM
Director & Assistant Professor
Nurse-Midwifery & WHNP Program
School of Nursing & Health Studies
Georgetown University
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>Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:42:58 +0100
>From: "Midwifery, Reproductive and Women's Health Education" <[log in to unmask]> (on behalf of Denis Walsh <[log in to unmask]>)
>Subject: launch of new childbirth journal
>To: [log in to unmask]
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> Dear List Members,
>
> International Journal of Childbirth (Springer
> Publishing)
>
> We are delighted to announce the forthcoming
> publication of a new journal, the International
> Journal of Childbirth which will launch on line in
> mid October this year and in hard copy, in January
> 2011. It will be published quarterly and will be the
> official journal of the International Confederation
> of Midwives, along with their 93 member
> organisations. It has an international editorial
> board, representing childbirth stakeholders and
> childbirth specialists from all around the world.
>
> The journal will publish high quality, peer reviewed
> articles with the following aims:
>
> o to disseminate original research, theoretical
> insights, and accounts of practice based
> innovation, organization of care, in all areas
> of childbirth
> o to provide a forum for exploration, debate, and
> critique in childbirth research, education and
> practice
> o to promote multi-cultural and inter-disciplinary
> perspectives in the examination of childbirth
> experience and knowledge.
> o to actively promote research, education and
> practice activity in neglected areas such as
> normal birth, measurement of wellbeing as
> opposed to pathology, indigenous childbirth
> practices and culture and the public health
> consequences of childbirth
> o to disseminate original case studies of normal,
> though unusual births with a significant
> reflective component
> o to provide an English language summary of
> selected highly significant papers that have not
> been published in English, to maximize
> international awareness of the body of knowledge
> in this area that may not be published in
> English
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>
> Our new journal will be of interest to midwives,
> maternity care & neonatal nurses, maternity service
> users, obstetricians, neonatologists, pediatricians,
> physiologists, health sociologists,
> physiotherapists, health economists, biologists and
> psychologists with an interest in maternal and
> infant research, maternity service policy makers and
> managers, academics in the area of childbirth and
> maternal and women's health, doulas and traditional
> birth attendants, childbirth educationalists, and
> students of maternity care.
>
> The journal will publish the following types of
> articles:
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> o original research papers
> o theoretical perspectives, philosophical papers
> o innovations in practice, policy, service user
> involvement, or maternity care organization
> o reflective narrative accounts of childbirth
> phenomenon and experiences
> o education papers
> o conference reports
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>
> We would like to encourage list members to consider
> submission of manuscripts to the journal.
> Approximately six original papers will be published
> per edition, together with shorter articles and
> reviews. Our deadline for papers is the 30th of
> June, 2010. At this stage please submit papers as
> emails attachments to Kerri [log in to unmask] or
> myself [log in to unmask] until an
> electronic submission system is in place.
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>
> Best wishes,
>
> Denis Walsh
>
> Kerri Schuiling
>
> Editors in Chief
>
> The International Journal of Childbirth
>
> Springer Publishing
>
>
>
> Dr Denis Walsh
>
> Associate Professor in Midwifery
>
> Academic Division of Midwifery
>
> University of Nottingham
>
> Postgraduate Centre
>
> City Hospital Nottingham
>
> Hucknall Rd
>
> Nottingham NG5 1PB
>
> Tel: 0115 8231926
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> Email: [log in to unmask]
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