Shadow work in midwifery: unseen and unrecognised emotional labour.
Ethnographic observation and in depth interviews were used to explore the interactions between ten women and their midwives on a delivery suite in a low risk obstetric unit in Wales. There was evidence that for midwives a dichotomy of emotions existed, some of which were 'natural' and others 'profes...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Midwifery Vol. 14; no. 5; pp. 266 - 271 |
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Mark Allen Holdings Limited
May2006
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