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Volume 15 Issue 4 - 2006

Childbirth, Politics & the Culture of Risk

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325 Foreword
Barbara Katz Rothman

329 Editorial
Kerreen Reiger, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, Karen Lane

330 A Neoliberal Quickstep: Contradictions in Australian maternity policy
Kerreen Reiger

341 The Plasticity of Professional Boundaries: A case study of collaborative care in maternity services
Karen Lane

353 Surveillance, Support and Risk in the Postnatal Period
Maria Zadoroznyj

364 Performing Birth in a Culture of Fear: An embodied crisis of late modernity
Kerreen Reiger, Rhea Dempsey

374 Finding a 'Safe' Place on the Risk Continuum: A case study of pregnancy and birthing in Lao PDR
Elizabeth Eckermann

387 Risky Business: Contested knowledge over safe birthing services for Aboriginal women
Sue Kildea

397 Inescapable Burden of Choice?: The impact of a culture of prenatal screening on women's experiences of pregnancy
Sarah Donovan

406 Confining Risk: Choice and responsibility in childbirth in a risk society
Alphia Possamai-Inesedy

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Selected Articles

Opening up Pathways
Mike Lloyd


Rejoinder to John Deeble's comment
DP Doessel


Nursing's constructions of the body
Colin Holmes


Networks, bodies and reformulating health knowledge: a response to Collyer and Garrett
Gillian Hatt


An unobtrusive investigation of an elusive condition: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Bruce Rumbold


Redefining the subject?: The influence of Foucault on the sociology of health and illness
Alan R. Petersen


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