«You worked on your own, making your own decisions and coping on your own»: Midwifery knowledge, practice and independence in the workplace in Britain, 1936 to the early 1950's
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Rhodes, MaxineEditorial
Universidad de Granada
Date
1999Referencia bibliográfica
Rhodes, Maxine. «You worked on your own, making your own decisions and coping on your own: midwifery knowledge, practice and independence in the workplace in Britain, 1936 to the early 1950’s». Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 1999, Vol. 19, p. 191-214, https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/106148.
Résumé
Midwifery knowledge is a complex entity-comprising of training and experiential
elements-not fixed but mutable, both informed and altered by practice. This study uses
oral history accounts to explore how midwives viewed themselves and how they interacted
with midwifery knowledge in an attempt to gain a greater understanding of their power
and independence in the workplace and, as a result, of their professional status.
Midwifery knowledge cannot simply be defined as the technical skills taught in training;
it was also shaped by the environment in which practice took place and the midwife's
relationships with women and with doctors