Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 1975. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2010. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 114 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-82).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1922. / Vita.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1926. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 485-498).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Resource Development, 1972. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 510-526).

Thesis (M.A.)--Rowan University, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998. / Title from title page screen, viewed July 3, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Larry McNeal (chair), Elizabeth Lugg, David Blacker, Donald Hackmann, R. Craig Whitlock. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-163) and abstract. Also available in print.

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D.Cur. / The midwife renders a service to assist the individual, family, and\or community to promote, maintain, and restore health during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period. The nature of the service that the midwife renders is determined by law. The midwife is responsible and accountable for her actions and conduct. It is often expected of the midwife to take responsibility for a patient and to be accountable, although legislation does not support her function. In talking to other midwives and from own experienceit has become clear that the legislation which regulates the practice of the midwife causes confusion and is limiting. As a result of this, midwives sometimes hesitate to act, neglect their duties or act outside their scope of practice. The aims of the study are: • to analyse the legislation which regulates the conduct of the midwife • to propose guidelines for new comprehensive legislation. This study has been conducted in three phases. In phase 1 focus group interviews were used to determine the problems experienced by the midwife. Phase 2 of the study consists of the above mentioned legislation. A survey of available literature is used in the analysis to test the relevance of the legislation. Various problems with the legislation are identified. The legislation causes confusion among midwives, limits her practice and is outdated. In the last phase of the research, guidelines for legislation are formulated in order to resolve the current problems and to prevent the recurrence of problems in future. Recommendations for further research are made.

There are two broad areas of prisoner rights law that require development. The first area is that of the development of a common law framework with which to analyse disputes regarding the rights of prisoners. The second relates to the significant tension that exists between the conditions of detention that the Correctional Services Act envisages and the actual conditions of detention in South Africa prisons. This second aspect requires that a mechanism be created for the meaningful exercise of rights by prisoners. As a precursor to both of the above discussions it is necessary to understand the history of prisons and the intentions of those who designed this form of punishment. As will be illustrated there tends to be to-and-fro shift in intention on the part of the authorities between those who intend imprisonment as a humane form of punishment which seeks to reform the offender and the subsequent despair of that project of reformation with a resultant focus on security and mere detention of the offender. It is also a history of conditions of detention that are generally inhumane. These poor conditions are sometimes caused by neglect on the part of the authorities but ofttimes caused by the belief that harsh conditions of detention are a deterrent to wouldbe offenders. The advent of human rights law has placed an increasingly more onerous responsibility on the state to care for the well-being of prisoners whilst in custody. This duty includes, but is not limited to, the duty to care for the prisoner’s mental and physical health, ensure that they are safe from physical violence both from fellow prisoners and staff as well as a duty to ensure that they receive the necessities of life. Various failures by the state have led to increased litigation against the state. This will continue to create an ever increasing burden on the state as the number of long term prisoners increase and damages awards are made by the courts, in favour of prisoners, against the state for various reasons. These reasons include diseases contracted by prisoners whilst in custody and constitutional damages following death in custody. It is therefore necessary to develop a clear framework with which to analyse such disputes so that decisions are made which are consistent with the principles of South African law. It is this framework which this study seeks to develop. In order to do this the relevant principles of both international prison law as well as South African law will be drawn upon. In this regard the importance of the purposes of punishment will be emphasized when engaging upon an analysis of the limitations of the rights of a person in the context of prison law. Secondly, even though a sound framework may be developed with which to analyse prisoner rights there is still the difficulty of putting a system into operation which provides a mechanism through which prisoners can exercise those rights in a meaningful way. In order to create such a system there must be recognition of the impact of criminogenic conditions of imprisonment, the purposes of punishment and the values of the South African constitution. In this regard the principles of reductionism and restorative justice are considered. Furthermore, the role of special masters will be debated and amendments to the existing legislation will be proposed.