Outline of obstetrics

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to obstetrics:

Obstetrics medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy (prenatal period), childbirth and the postnatal period.

What is obstetrics?

Obstetrics can be described as all of the following:

  • Medicine medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness in human beings.
    • Medical specialty branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist.
  • Academic discipline In addition to being a medical specialty, obstetrics is the study of the reproductive process within the female body, including fertilization, pregnancy and childbirth.

History of obstetrics

Medical history

Pregnancy and childbirth

Family planning

Female reproductive anatomy

Conception

Testing

Prenatal development

Prenatal care

Prenatal monitoring

Childbirth

Preparation for childbirth

Roles during childbirth

  • Doula
  • Midwife
  • Mother a woman who has raised a child, given birth to a child, and/or supplied the ovum that united with a sperm which grew into a child. During childbirth, she is the patient.
  • Perinatal nursing
  • Men's role in childbirth
  • Obstetrician

Delivery

Postpartum issues

Complications of pregnancy and childbirth

Obstetrics organizations

Obstetrics publications

  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • African Journal of Reproductive Health
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Climacteric (journal)
  • The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
  • Gynecological Endocrinology
  • Human Fertility (Cambridge)
  • Human Reproduction (journal)
  • Hypertension in Pregnancy
  • International Journal of Fertility
  • Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences
  • Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Menopause (journal)
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology (journal)
  • Placenta (journal)
  • Reproduction (journal)
  • Reproductive Sciences
  • Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine
  • Women & Health

Persons influential in obstetrics

  • Edward Kowalski

See also

References

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