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--- Gill White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Like Midge I agree that midwifery is a health
> profession in its own right.
> All health professionals have common elements but
> different ontologies and
> epistemologies (ways of being in the world and ways
> of knowing). I liken
> this to one country with citizens of equal value but
> expressing different
> cultures. The country can only benefit by the
> richness and the expertise.
>
> As nurses have struggled to be free from medical
> domination so midwives, in
> many countries, have struggled to be free from
> nursing and medical
> domination. All ways of being and ways of knowing
> should be valued and
> respected for their diversity. Nurse-midwives may
> have a broader base from
> which to practice, as do doctors, but midwives are
> unique in their ways of
> knowing and being with women and their families in
> aspects related to
> pregnancy and childbirth. I accept that nurse -
> midwives have a wider range
> of job options, including being able to work in
> remote and rural areas in
> the world, and that is their choice. It does not
> mean, however, that all
> midwives should be nurses (or vice versa). Loss of
> identity is one of the
> major problems causing stress and unhappiness in the
> world today. Midwives
> (as nurse-midwives) have had an identity crisis in
> the C20 and, as they are
> inextricably woven into the world of childbearing
> women, that crisis has
> impacted upon women. The midwife-only has saved that
> identity from being
> lost altogether (as many indigenous people will
> appreciate).
>
> Gill
>
> Dr Gillian White RM MTD BEd Dip.Soc.Sci (Psych) MA
> (Hons) PhD
> Senior Lecturer
> Albany Group Co-ordinator
> Midwifery Programme Co-ordinator
> School of Health Sciences (Nursing and Midwifery)
> Massey University @ Albany
> Private Bag 102904, North Shore MSC
> Auckland, New Zealand
>
> Tel: +64 9 443 9373
> Fax: +64 9 443 9372
>
>
>
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