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JOURNAL OF MIDWIFERY & WOMENS HEALTH
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 175-181Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2003.12.011
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ethics; human rights; midwifery care; social justice
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This article presents a rights-based model for midwifery care of women and childbearing families. Salient features include discussion of the influence of values on how women are viewed within cultures and societies, universal ethical principles applicable to health care services, and human rights based on the view of women as persons rather than as objects or chattel. Examples of the health impact on women of persistent violation of basic human rights are used to support the need for using a human rights framework for midwifery care-a model supported by codes of ethics, the midwifery philosophy of care, and standards of practice. (C) 2004 by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
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