Caesarean birth: Consumption, safety, order, and good mothering

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1192-1201

  Bryant, Joanne ^a   Porter, Maree ^b   Tracy, Sally K ^b   Sullivan, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Caesarean birth; Discourse; Motherhood; Neo liberalism; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; RESEARCH WORK; SAFETY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDWIFE; MOTHER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDWIFERY; MOTHERS; NEW SOUTH WALES; OBSTETRICS; PARENTING; SAFETY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34547844304     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.05.025     Document Type: Article

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