An Icelandic Midwifery Saga - Coming to Light, "With woman" and connective ways of knowing.
The aim of this thesis was to explore storytelling of Icelandic midwives' working lives, in the period from the mid twentieth century to the present time. This ethnographic narrative study was designed with a broad perspective looking at birth stories of midwives as a mine full of their knowled...
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| Format: | Thesis |
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2006
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| Online Access: | https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/11530/ https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/11530/1/An%20Icelandic%20Midwifery%20Saga%20-%20Coming%20to%20Light.pdf |
| Summary: | The aim of this thesis was to explore storytelling of Icelandic midwives' working lives, in the period from the mid twentieth century to the present time. This ethnographic narrative study was designed with a broad perspective looking at birth stories of midwives as a mine full of their knowledge to identify and uncover. Interviews were conducted with twenty midwives to collect birth-stories that represent the social and cultural world of childbirth and midwifery in Iceland, and theory was to arise inductively from the midwives' own telling. |
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