Volume 15 Issue 4 - 2006

Childbirth, Politics and the Culture of Risk

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325-328 Foreword
Barbara Katz Rothman
329 Editorial
Kerreen Reiger, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, Karen Lane
330-340 A Neoliberal Quickstep: Contradictions in Australian maternity policy
Kerreen Reiger
341-352 The Plasticity of Professional Boundaries: A case study of collaborative care in maternity services
Karen Lane
353-363 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
374-386 Finding a 'Safe' Place on the Risk Continuum: A case study of pregnancy and birthing in Lao PDR
Elizabeth Eckermann
387-396 Risky Business: Contested knowledge over safe birthing services for Aboriginal women
Sue Kildea
397-405 Inescapable Burden of Choice?: The impact of a culture of prenatal screening on women's experiences of pregnancy
Sarah Donovan
406-414 Confining Risk: Choice and responsibility in childbirth in a risk society
Alphia Possamai-Inesedy

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