The Community Midwife and Domiciliary Confinements

Willmott, Juliet

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-17389-1_15

Juliet Willmott

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It might seem unnecessary to describe the work of the community midwife, but recently a young consultant obstetrician asked the community midwife ‘Who are you?’, when she turned up on their doorstep following his wife’s delivery.

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Department of General Practice, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Luke Zander (Senior Lecturer) (Senior Lecturer)
St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Geoffrey Chamberlain (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology)

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Willmott, J. (1984). The Community Midwife and Domiciliary Confinements. In: Zander, L., Chamberlain, G. (eds) Pregnancy Care for the 1980s. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17389-1_15

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