Originally published in 1980, the setting of this book is in the practicalities of teaching on labour wards, in antenatal clinics and in child health clinics. In such settings, health education about childbirth and parenthood is often an explicit, and always implicit, task for the health professional.

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Acknowledgements. Foreword Diana Stockwell 1. Parents, Prospective Parents and Health Professionals 2. The Labour Ward as an Educational Setting 3. Teaching About Labour: The Contribution of Antenatal Classes 4. Clinic Booklets: Help or Hindrance in Patient Education? Elizabeth R. Perkins and Nicholas J. Spencer MRCS, MRCP, DCH 5. Parentcraft: Continuity and Change 6. Responding to Groups: Towards Better Antenatal Teaching 7. The Possibilities of Teaching in the Health Service Interview: The Problematic Case of the Child Health Clinic Doctor Elizabeth R. Perkins and Digby C. Anderson, PhD 8. Planning for Progress in Patient Education. Bibliography. Index.