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Hi Alison, I’ll be at the conference and would like one copy of the book please. Thank you! best, Davis Harte, PhD On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:05 AM Macfarlane, Alison < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Twenty five years ago, the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit published > the second edition of Rona Campbell and my book ‘Where to be born? The > debate and the evidence’. As a result of Birthplace and other similar > research done since 1994, we now have much more robust and detailed > evidence and it is reassuring to know that our earlier tentative > conclusions have not been contradicted. Despite being 25 years old, Where > to be born? is still cited widely as, to my knowledge, no one else has > described the historical background and I am often asked by midwives and > others how they can get at hold of a copy. > > > > Although the book sold well when it first came out, there was no > professional publisher involved. The distribution methods we used worked > well in the 1980s and early 1990s but have long been superseded. As a > result, a considerable number of unsold copies have been languishing in a > storage facility. Unsurprisingly, the current Director of NPEU has decided > to get rid of them and has asked for them to be pulped. > > > > Rather than doing this, I am looking at ways of distributing them to > people who might want a copy for themselves or a number of copies for > distribution to students. Anyone who is within easy reach of Oxford can > just contact Thomas Roberts at NPEU, to whom this is copied, and arranged > to collect copies free of charge. I am also looking at ways of getting them > to people who are further away. > > > > In the first instance, for people are going to the International Normal > Birth Conference at Grange over Sands from June 17-19, I can arrange for > copies to be couriered there. So if you are going and would like one or > more copies, please email me by Monday June 10 with your name and the > number of copies. I will be there and can hand the copies over in return > for a donation towards the cost of the courier. > > <https://maps.google.com/?q=1,+Myddelton+Street+%0D%0A+London+EC1R+1UW&entry=gmail&source=g> > > > > Hoping to hear from some of you > > > > Alison Macfarlane > School of Health Sciences > City, University of London > > 1, Myddelton Street > <https://maps.google.com/?q=1,+Myddelton+Street+%0D%0A+London+EC1R+1UW&entry=gmail&source=g> > > London EC1R 1UW > <https://maps.google.com/?q=1,+Myddelton+Street+%0D%0A+London+EC1R+1UW&entry=gmail&source=g> > > Phone (0) (44) 207 040 5832 > > Email [log in to unmask] > http://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/alison-macfarlane > > > This email and its contents are the property of City University London. If > you are not the intended recipient of this message and any attached files, > please delete it. Unauthorised copying or distribution of this message, its > attachments or parts thereof, is strictly prohibited unless specifically > stated otherwise. > > Please consider the environment before printing my email > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH&A=1 > -- J Davis Harte •Paradigm_Spaces• _connecting_design_environment_behavior_ davisparadigmspaces.com ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH&A=1