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Midwifery Partnership - A Consumer's Perspective

Abstract:

I agree that we need to debate the concept of 'partnership', otherwise we risk that it becomes stale and empty rhetoric. Like Joan Skinner, I recognise the difficulties some midwives and birthing women face in putting partnership into practice. I do not agree, however, that we should therefore discard the word or the principle... Skinner makes a number of arguments with respect to partnership that I would like to comment on. My approach is somewhat different to Skinner's. I start from the premise that words or concepts like 'partnership', 'contracts', patriarchy', 'feminism' and even 'midwifery' all have multiple, shifting and contextualised meanings.

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contractualism, partnership, professional relationships