Ethnography is bound up with travelling, both literally and metaphorically. Travelling to foreign lands has always been both an adventure and a metaphor for adventure – no one can predict what will befall the traveller – it is an inherently unpredictable activity. Few, perhaps, are lucky enough to combine research and travel in such pleasant lands as northern California and Hawaii. But …
Being a busy stay-at-home mom, I found it an enormous challenge to write a book (it’s hard enough just finding the time to even read one). But, thanks to some incredible people, the task was completed and a dream was fulfilled. Because of this, I want to take a moment to thank them. First and foremost, thank you to my wonderful husband, Jeff. There would never have even been a book with…
Creating a successful literature review is a complex project. This book serves as a logical road map to assist the researcher in finding a topic, researching, organizing, arguing, and composing the review. The many and varied skills needed for this project are sure to be more difficult to employ if learning is confined to trial and error. Here, gathered into one volume, are many of the str…
A few years ago, because of my background in animal behavior, I was asked to give a talk on “breastfeeding lessons from animal behavior.” What fun! I would look at pregnancy, birth, feeding, sleep, solids, and weaning in other mammals, and let the audience draw for itself the obvious and entertaining parallels with humans. That’s not how it turned out. I never really got past the bir…
The aim of this book is to provide foundational and essential, evidence-based knowledge for midwifery practice. Theoretical and practical perspectives are used to discuss the provision of safe, high-quality professional care to women, babies and their families. Standards for pre-registration midwifery education (NMC 2009) insist student midwives need to be prepared to demonstrate competence…
This book is the result of several forms of partnership and collaboration. As joint and equal co-authors, we embarked on this attempt to understand vaccine anxieties as a result of two convergent pathways: as anthropologists researching environmental issues over a 15-year period in West African worlds where health issues were often a greater priority and local understandings often linked bo…
Background: Uninformed adoption of simulation technology such as high-fidelity simulators may result in ineffective learning and teaching. However, in the literature little is known about specific developmental approaches to prepare midwifery educators for using this pedagogy. Aims: The overall aim of this research was to describe the experiences of midwifery educators following a 2-day hi…
Mata kulian Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) ini dirancang khusus un- tuk Mahasiswa program Sarjana (Strata 1) yang bersifat memperkaya wawasan dan sikap yang berkaitan dengan materi tentang Agama Is- lam. Materi mata kuliah PAI sangat penting bagi mahasiswa UMSura- baya dalam bekal menghadapi kehidupan di masyarakat. Modul ini diharapkan dapat membekali Mahasiswa dalam proses pembelajaran da…
Pengertian bidan adalah seseorang yang telah menyelesaikan program Pendidikan Bidan yang diakui oleh negara serta memperoleh kualifikasi dan diberi izin untuk menjalankan praktik kebidanan di negeri itu. Dia harus mampu memberikan supervisi, asuhan dan memberikan nasehat yang dibutuhkan kepada wanita selama masa hamil, persalinan dan masa pasca persalinan ( post partum period ), memimpin p…
Mata Kuliah Bahasa Indonesia merupakan pelajaran yang mengembangkan kemampuan mahasiswa dalam berbahasa Indonesia dengan baik dan benar, karena penguasaan atas bahasa Indonesia dapat dijadikan ukuran nasionalisme seseorang sebagai bangsa Indonesia. Selain itu, mata kuliah ini juga bertujuan untuk mengembangkan kemampuan mahasiswa dalam mengorganisir ide-ide atau konsep- konsep untuk dikom…