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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Wed, 1 Mar 2006 07:05:43 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King's College, London, Women's Health and Society Public Seminar Series Forget the Bathwater, Who's Left to Catch the Baby? The Crisis in Maternity Care in Canada and the United States 24th March 2006 12.30-2, Room 2.47, Franklin Wilkins Building, King's College, London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/waterloo.html Numerous articles in the media and in the health care literature point a crisis in maternity care, particularly in rural areas. Obstetricians in Canada are in short supply, their counterparts in the United States face wildly escalating malpractice insurance rates, many family doctors are not practicing obstetrics for both personal and professional reasons; and the modest increase of midwives in both jurisdictions is not enough to make up the shortfall. The implications of this scarcity for those who need these services is in critical need of examination. In this talk, I will draw upon data from two studies to address this issue: 1) a study of maternity care human resources in Canada and the U.S. which includes documentary and interview data from key informants; and 2) an in-depth study of over 60 women living in rural areas in two Canadian provinces - Alberta and Ontario specifically regarding their experiences with rural maternity care and the unique challenges they face accessing care. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault is an Associate Professor in Health Studies and Sociology at McMaster University, Canada. She also holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair Comparative Health Labour Policy at McMaster. Ivy has published widely in national and international journals on midwifery and maternity care in Canada and the United States, recently contributing to two chapters in the international edited volume Birth By Design (Routledge, 2001), and co-editing Re-conceiving Midwifery with Cecilia Benoit and Robbie Davis-Floyd (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004). She is a member of the National Steering Committee on Rural and Remote Women's Health and of the CIHR Gender, Sex and Health Review Panel. Push! The Struggle to Integrate Midwifery in Ontario, a book with McGill-Queen's University Press is due out shortly. [log in to unmask]: http://univmail.mcmaster.ca/~bourgea This lecture is free and open to the public. For further information please contact Caroline Kirby-Smith at [log in to unmask] tel: 0207 848 3023 ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html **********************************************************************