Dear Susan,
I don't have much to specifically add to your topic but I do have a
suggestion for changing your words.
If your aim is to move away from biomedical discourse then a word like
'diagnosis' keeps you locked in. Maybe there isn't a 'start' to labour.
Maybe it creeps up slowly. Maybe that is one of the big differences between
midwifery and obstetrics; midwives don't have to put things in tight boxes.
We can accept the continuity of branxton hicks, early labour, established
labour etc. Why do you want to answer this question?
Dr. Kathleen Fahy
Associate Professor
Midwifery Co-ordinator
University Southern Queensland
07 46312377
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-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Burvill [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 8:23
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Subject: Introduction and request
Dear Colleagues
I have been on the list for many months but not actually introduced myself
I am Susan Burvill, I practice as an Independent midwife in South London and
at present I am doing an MSc at Surrey University in Advanced Clinical
Practice (Midwifery).
My particular interests surround the re-discovery and develpment of a clear
midwifery discourse which is distinctly separate from the biomedical
discourse now so ubiquitous in women's health and childbirth. For my final
MSc dissertation I am focussing on the midwifery diagnosis of labour onset.
In order to tease out and explore the 'midwifery expertise' I will conduct
serial indepth interviews with two experienced midwives along the lines of
Firlej and Hellens 'Knowledge Elicitation' process.
Has anyone read or heard of this approach used to explore midwifery
knowledge? I have found none so far.
I would also be interested on any refs pertaining to labour onset diagnosis,
there appears surprisingly little in the data bases and journals that I have
reviewed.
I look forward to any leads
Thanks in advance
Susan
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