The Making of Informed Choice in Midwifery: A Feminist Experiment in Care.
This paper is about the clinical principle of informed choice-the hallmark feature of the midwifery model of care in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on ethnographic history interviews with midwives, I trace the origins of the idea of informed choice to its roots in the social movement of midwifery in North...
| Publicado en: | Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 278 - 295 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2018
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