Includes bibliographical references and index.

Husserlian phenomenology reflected in caring science childbearing research / Terese Bondas -- Lifeworld phenomenology for caring and health care research / Karin Dahlberg -- From beginning to end : how to do hermeneutic interpretive phenomenology / Elizabeth Smythe -- Phenomenological research approaches : mapping the terrain of competing perspectives / Maura Dowling -- Lesbian women's experiences of being different in Irish health care / Mel Duffy -- Women's lived experiences of severe early onset of preeclampsia : a hermeneutic analysis / Joyce Cowan, Elizabeth Smythe & Marion Hunter -- The meaning of giving birth from a long-term perspective for childbearing women / Ingela Lundgren -- Abandonment of being in childbirth / Gill Thomson -- Parents' participation in the care of their child in neonatal intensive care / Marie Berg & Helena Wigert -- A poetic hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of midwives being with woman during childbirth / Lauren Hunter -- Revealing the subtle differences among postpartum mood and anxiety disorders : phenomenology holds the key / Cheryl Tatano Beck -- Heidegger's contribution to hermeneutic phenomenological research / Maria Healy -- Authenticity and poetics : what is different about phenomenology / Soo Downe, Gill Thomson & Fiona Dykes.