Towards an 'optics of power': technologies of surveillance and discipline and case-loading midwifery practice in New Zealand

Deborah DAVIS; Kim Walker

doi:10.1080/0966369X.2012.701199

Towards an 'optics of power': technologies of surveillance and discipline and case-loading midwifery practice in New Zealand

Deborah DAVIS, Kim Walker

Midwifery

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Abstract

Midwives in New Zealand achieved professional autonomy in 1990 with an amendment to the Nurses Act 1977. Predicated on a natural approach to childbirth it was envisaged that midwifery would counter the trend of increasing medicalisation of childbirth. Some 20 years later, we continue to be concerned by increasing rates of intervention in childbirth including caesarean section operations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	597-612
Number of pages	16
Journal	Gender, Place and Culture
Volume	20
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2012.701199
Publication status	Published - 2013

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