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A Book for Midwives: A handbook for community midwives and traditional birth attendants
Susan Klein
Uses simple language and hundreds of drawings to teach midwives and traditional birth attendants how to care for women during pregnancy and childbirth. An invaluable tool for midwives facilitating education and training sessions as well as an essential reference for practice.
ISBN 0333660595, (Macmillan), 1996, 519pp, £12.25,

Communicating with Children: Helping children in distress
Naomi Richman
The effects of conflict and emergencies on children can be devastating, both physically and psychologically. They need special understanding and support to help them through the crisis and deal with the future. This book is an invaluable tool in developing listening and communication skills to help children with special needs. Using case studies, practical exercises and workshop instructions, Communicating with Children illustrates the problems facing children such as stress, communication blocks and cultural differences, and suggests ways of resolving them.
ISBN 1870322495, (Save the Children), 1993, 106pp, £3.95,

Health Worker's Manual on Family Planning Options
WHO
ISBN 9290611375, (WHO), 1996, , £4.50,

Healthy Mothers, Happy Babies: Pregnancy and birth in the tropics and sub-tropics
Janie Hampton and Julia Cleves Mosse
Covering the health problems, environmental conditions and resources for mothers-to-be in tropical and sub-tropical areas, this practical text will be a valuable resource for community health workers, birth attendants, midwives and community nurses.
ISBN 0333445384, (Macmillan), 1991, 156pp, £6.25,

In the Tropics with Children
Ferko Oery, with H. W. A. Voorhoeve and J. C. M. Stigter
A practical guide containing medical advice concerning child health in the tropics.
ISBN 9068320238, (KIT Press), 1989, 120pp, £5.95,