'I'm just going to wash you down': Sanitizing the vaginal examination

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 587-594

  Stewart, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Labour; Midwives; Non participant observation; Pollution; Power; Vaginal examination

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; NOMENCLATURE; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SYMBOLISM; VAGINA;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; TERMINOLOGY; VAGINA;

EID: 24744433754     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03543.x     Document Type: Article

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