Objective: To explore inhibiting and facilitating design factors influencing childbirth supporters’
experiences. Background: Birthing women benefit from the continuous, cooperative …

Background: Conducting video-research in birth settings raises challenges for ethics review
boards to view birthing women and research-midwives as capable, autonomous decision-…

… Supporters, for this research, are defined as untrained companions from the woman’s
personal network (Harte, 2015). Professional supporters may also benefit from the results …

Students who have experienced trauma often have altered neurocognitive functioning that
leads to different responses, usually with appreciably heightened or reduced intensity. School …

The chapter begins by exploring the concepts of 'salutogenesis' and 'pathogenesis' in order
to reveal the way society's view of childbirth has resulted in a particular set of familiar …

In this paper, we study the bulk motion of a classical extended charge in flat spacetime. A
formalism developed by WG Dixon is used to determine how the details of such a particle’s …

RETIREMENTand an ageing population are two of the most important social problems of
the present age, not only to the United Kingdom but also in all civilised countries. In the last …

The original title for this paper was' The medical questionnaire as used in the pre-employment
medical', but on consideration I felt that there was a need to look more closely at the basic …

… Deepest gratitude for the support of my astute and bright husband Michael Harte, who can
make suggestions in a most direct manner, but who always believes in me. To our beautiful …

Stress is environmental or internal disruption of homeostasis of a system or individual.
Depending on the health and resilience of the system or individual stress can either be a positive …