From Uncertainty to Risk: How Mass Media in the UK and the US Generate Fear of Childbirth

Authors: van Teijlingen, E., Hundley, V., De Vries, R.

Editors: Scamell, M., Coxon, K., De Vries, R.

Publication Date: 16/05/2026

Pages: 327-346

Publisher: Palgrave Micmilan

Place of Publication: Switzerland

ISBN: 9783032027306

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-02731-3_16#DOI

Abstract:

Book chapter analysing the media's role in the creating of fear to add to the naturally occuring unceratinty in childbirth. Chapter compares UK and USA and is written by an interdisciplinary team bringing to the writing ideas from the UK and the USA and from the disciplones of health service research, midwifery and sociology.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-02731-3

Source: Manual