AN Aberdeen professor will call for fresh thinking about childbirth in a public lecture to be delivered at Robert Gordon University (RGU) Garthdee on Wednesday.
Professor Susan Crowther, RGU’s professor of midwifery is urging people to think differently about childbirth.
In a career spanning more than 30 years in healthcare, including 25 years in midwifery, Crowther has worked across the globe in midwifery practice, education, service development, leadership and research. She is a member of the International Confederation of Midwives Research Standing Committee.
Crowther said: “One thing we all have in common is that we have all been to at least one birth. As such, birth touches us all individually and collectively – whatever our work, social and family lives, wherever we live and whatever cultural and ethnic orientation we identify with.
“My hope is that attendees will come to think afresh about the contextual realities of childbirth, beyond contemporary debates about type of birth and place of birth, as well as the often cited fear and risk discourse that surrounds each birth.
“In thinking anew and challenging any dichotomy, we can have a more open and unbounded approach that unites all of us around the humanness that lies at the heart of each birth.”
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