Midwifery work and the making of narrative Maher, Jane-Maree and Souter, Kay Torney 2002, Midwifery work and the making of narrative, Nursing inquiry, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 37-42, doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2002.00123.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Midwifery work and the making of narrative Author(s) Maher, Jane-Maree Souter, Kay Torney Journal name Nursing inquiry Volume number 9 Issue number 1 Start page 37 End page 42 Total pages 6 Publisher Wiley Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2002-03 ISSN 1320-7881 Keyword(s) funding source pilot studies narratives victoria semi-structured interview data analysis qualitative studies hospitals nursing role nurse-patient relations attitude of health personnel pregnancy female human Summary This paper draws on a study of birth support conducted across three Melbourne maternity units. Midwife informants were asked to participate in semistructured interviews with two researchers and describe the activity and role of lay birth support people. In the course of the study, the activity of the midwives themselves became a research focus. The study found that one of the key tasks midwives described was assisting birthing women to develop and negotiate satisfactory birth narratives that could encompass the intense and sometimes difficult experience of birth. Midwife informants offered strategies for the development of such narratives as part of their professional and personal labour in the birth room. Language eng DOI 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2002.00123.x Field of Research 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2002, Wiley Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30064347 Document type: Journal Article Collection: Deakin Learning Futures Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 12:03:40 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 13:20:43 EST Fri, 20 Jun 2014, 13:22:03 EST Tue, 17 Nov 2015, 14:10:46 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 7 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 34 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 12:03:40 EST

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