Making midwives: postmodern conditions and midwifery training in Saint Lucia.
Med Anthropol
; 20(4): 313-44, 2001.
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| ID: mdl-11817849
Drawing on material from fieldwork conducted on the island of Saint Lucia, I examine how Saint Lucian nurse-midwives and student midwives negotiate multiple ways of understanding and evaluating their practices and roles in light of contradictory and powerful cultural, historical, and political forces. I argue that, although Saint Lucian nurse-midwives may not qualify as "postmodern" according to the criteria proposed by Davis-Floyd and Davis (1996), they are nonetheless struggling with postmodern conditions as they negotiate between competing healing ideologies. I illustrate the significance of these negotiations through analyzing: (1) the ways nurse-midwives understand and articulate the healing ideologies at play in Saint Lucia, (2) historical and ideological aspects of the Saint Lucian nurse-midwifery training program, and (3) a classroom discussion during which student reported on "bush-midwives."
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
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Educação em Enfermagem
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Tocologia
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe ingles
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Santa lucia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Anthropol
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos