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  title info:
    title: Cultural dimensions of birthing spaces in Malaysian public healthcare system - the malay-muslim practices
  name:
    name part: Norwina Mohd Nawawi
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    place:
      place term: Kuala Lumpur
    publisher: Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia
    date issued: 2015
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: xxxix, 843 leaves : ill. ; 30cm.
  abstract: Birthing, in the continuum of life, is a natural event and not a clinical process. Each society celebrates a new life with different cultural significance. Birth has traditionally been conducted at home in a family atmosphere. However, due to concern for safety of the mother and the unborn child in home-birth setting, societies were encouraged for hospital birth. Medicalization of birth for a natural event in a clinical setting is currently a fact. Birthing spaces in current maternity facilities are designed as 'clinical spaces' for the function that ensures safety of the mother as well as the safe delivery of the unborn child. This realisation led to movements in the Western society to de-medicalise or humanise the birthing process and environment to how it was. The emergence of the 'homelike', or 'salutogenic environment' approaches to birthing spaces, with a home-like treatment, familiar to mothers, is one of the most crucial transition phases in normalizing birthing experience. Many researches in the development for a safe and comfortable birthing environment linked its findings to the mother's cultural dimension i.e. the familiar or normal daily environment. The cultural dimension would provide the calming effect, and, therefore, create a humanised experience for better birth experience. In Malaysia, with the exception of a few, almost all mothers gave birth in hospitals. Birthing spaces or labour delivery rooms (LDR) are not design to the need of the Malaysian mothers' cultural dimension. The aim of this thesis is to highlight the importance of cultural dimension in the design of birthing spaces for Malaysians, with the Malay-Muslim practices as the case study. The thesis focuses on the architectural design of birthing spaces only. Qualitative and quantitative research methods are appropriately employed to achieve the objective of this thesis. The thesis had gathered both observational and empirical data through content analysis, post-occupancy-evaluations (PO…
  note: by Norwina Mohd Nawawi
  note: Thesis (Ph.D)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2015.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 619-668)
  subject:
    geographic code: a-my---
  classification: NA9053.S6
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/2608
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 150709
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng