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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Main Author: Olafsdottir, Olof Asta
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2006
Subjects:
Midwifery
Iceland
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
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spelling ftuniwestlondon:oai:repository.uwl.ac.uk:11530 2024-05-19T07:42:40+00:00 An Icelandic Midwifery Saga - Coming to Light, "With woman" and connective ways of knowing. Olafsdottir, Olof Asta 2006-01-01 application/pdf 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 en eng https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/11530/1/An%20Icelandic%20Midwifery%20Saga%20-%20Coming%20to%20Light.pdf Olafsdottir, Olof Asta (2006) An Icelandic Midwifery Saga - Coming to Light, "With woman" and connective ways of knowing. Doctoral thesis, Thames Valley University. Midwifery Thesis NonPeerReviewed 2006 ftuniwestlondon 2024-04-24T00:10:02Z 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. Thesis Iceland University of West London: UWL Repository
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Olafsdottir, Olof Asta (2006) An Icelandic Midwifery Saga - Coming to Light, "With woman" and connective ways of knowing. Doctoral thesis, Thames Valley University.
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