Midwives in Transition

This paper examines the influence of settings of practice on the construction and reconstruction of medical knowledge, specifically the development and uses of timetables for labor and birth. I reviewed the medical literature and interviewed 12 hospital-trained nurse-midwives who had begun to do home births. I argue that the medically managed hospital setting structures the birth process in social and ideological terms that are in many cases unrelated to the process itself

Birth rate · Ideology · Political science · Process (computing) · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Chemistry · Computer Science · Demography · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology

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