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'qualitative Research In Midwifery And Childbirth' Brings Together A Range Of Phenomenological Methods And Insights Into One Accessible Text. Illustrated With Plenty Of Examples Of Successful Phenomenological Research, It Keeps The Focus Applied To Midwifery And Childbirth And Makes Clear The Links To Practice Throughout. Husserlian Phenomenology Reflected In Caring Science Childbearing Research / Terese Bondas -- Lifeworld Phenomenology For Caring And Health Care Research / Karin Dahlberg -- From Beginning To End: How To Do Hermeneutic Interpretive Phenomenology / Elizabeth Smythe -- Phenomenological Research Approaches: Mapping The Terrain Of Competing Perspectives / Maura Dowling -- Lesbian Women's Experiences Of Being Different In Irish Health Care / Mel Duffy -- Women's Lived Experiences Of Severe Early Onset Of Preeclampsia: A Hermeneutic Analysis / Joyce Cowan, Elizabeth Smythe & Marion Hunter -- The Meaning Of Giving Birth From A Long-term Perspective For Childbearing Women / Ingela Lundgren -- Abandonment Of Being In Childbirth / Gill Thomson -- Parents' Participation In The Care Of Their Child In Neonatal Intensive Care / Marie Berg & Helena Wigert -- A Poetic Hermeneutic Phenomenological Analysis Of Midwives Being With Woman During Childbirth / Lauren Hunter -- Revealing The Subtle Differences Among Postpartum Mood And Anxiety Disorders: Phenomenology Holds The Key / Cheryl Tatano Beck -- Heidegger's Contribution To Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research / Maria Healy -- Authenticity And Poetics: What Is Different About Phenomenology / Soo Downe, Gill Thomson & Fiona Dykes. Edited By Gill Thomson, Fiona Dykes, And Soo Downe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.