Books and Media on Birth Injury for People with Disabilities, Their Families and Caregivers: New Horizons Un-Limited

Books and Media: Disability Specific Resources: Birth Injury

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Baby Medbasics: Lifesaving Action Steps at Your Fingertips: Birth to One Year by Luke Hermann (Author) and Tara Summers Hermann RN BSN (Author ) April 5, 2011.

This book is written in a simple and straightforward reference format for parents with the necessary critical information for the emergency care of infants.

Birth Injuries - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References [Paperback] by ICON Health Publications, September 3, 2004.

This book is a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to birth injuries. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to birth injuries. If your time is valuable, this book is for you.

Birth Injuries: Medical Subject Analysis with Research Bibliography (1st Edition) by Michele Kobayashi (Paperback) - January 1987

Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing

by K. Jane Lee, MD, MA, associate professor of pediatrics and bioethics and medical humanities, Complex Care Program at Children’s Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin. As a pediatrician the author saw how the medical community sees disability as an impairment to the body, however when a complicated delivery left her second child with a severe brain injury, she learned the perspective from the parent that sees the beauty and value in the person, her child. All author profits will be donated to the Complex Care Program at Children’s Wisconsin and the Medical Humanities Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin. This book is available through Ten/16 Press

The Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia [Paperback] by Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta, 2005

This book's emphasis is on relatively simple and sensible care measures or interventions designed to help maintain normal labor progress and to manage and correct minor complications before they become serious enough to require major interventions. This book is directed toward midwives, nurses, doctors, childbirth educators and expectant parents who want to support and enhance the physiological process of labor, with the objective of avoiding complex, costly, more risky interventions.