Susan Crowther
Birth and spirituality.
Crowther, Susan
Authors
Contributors
Laszlo Zsolnai
Editor
Bernadette Flanagan
Editor
Abstract
Spirituality and healthcare is predominantly focussed on end of life care, the central concern of this chapter is spirituality at the start of life. Although there is emergent literature gesturing towards spirituality and healthcare there remains a paucity of literature that solely focusses on spirituality at the beginning of life and reproduction. A systematic review of the literature using a hermeneutic (interpretive) lens found that what literature there is focussed on spiritual ‘care’, - the act of doing, whilst the lived-experience of spirituality at birth was often left as a cliché after thought, for example, ‘it was so joyful when the baby arrived’, and ‘it is such a lovely special moment’. Yet despite this paucity of published evidence birth is fundamentally experiential and involves and concerns us all: parents, those planning to be parents, people that do not have or plan to have children and health care professionals involved in maternity (e.g. medical staff, midwives and other allied health care professionals).
Citation
CROWTHER, S. 2019. Birth and spirituality. In Laszlo, Z. and Flanagan, B. (eds.) The Routledge international handbook of spirituality and society. London: Routledge [online], pages 113-119. Available from: https://www.routledge.com/9781138214675
Other Type | Reference Work Contribution |
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Online Publication Date | Mar 15, 2019 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Oct 15, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 2, 2020 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 113-119 |
ISBN | 9781138214675 |
Keywords | Spirituality; Healthcare; Birth; Maternity; Midwives |
Public URL | https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/248987 |
Publisher URL | https://www.routledge.com/9781138214675 |
Contract Date | Jul 1, 2018 |
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