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The Dutch obstetrical system: vanguard of the future in maternity care.
DeVries, R., Wiegers, T.A., Smulders, B., Teijlingen, E. van. The Dutch obstetrical system: vanguard of the future in maternity care. In: R.E. Davis-Floyd; L. Barclay; B-A. Daviss; J. Tritten. Birth models that work. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. p. 3-25.
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The singularity of the Dutch maternity care system has made it a model for all those who seek to slow or reverse the march toward the medicalization of birth found in the developed world. For birth activists, the Netherlands has become the destination for inspiration and for instruction on how to reorganize birth in their home countries.
The uniqueness of the system, coupled with the desire of short-term visitors to fi nd what they are looking for, has resulted in mischaracterizations of the Dutch way of birth.
The uniqueness of the system, coupled with the desire of short-term visitors to fi nd what they are looking for, has resulted in mischaracterizations of the Dutch way of birth.