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Article: Study findings on women's health are outlined in reports from University of Victoria.(Clinical report)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- July 31, 2008
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"The dominant discourse of 'risk' underlies the medical surveillance of pregnant women," scientists in Victoria, Canada report (see also Women's Health).
"This article draws upon interview data from a purposeful sample of twenty-seven childbearing women, focusing on the tensions and negotiations that take place for these women between the informal, everyday experiences of childbearing and the formal boundaries of organised medical/midwifery care. Through such techniques as narrative reconstruction, rationalisation, and resistance and compromise, our respondents were active agents in interpreting and shaping their reproductive experiences," wrote R. Westfall and ...