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Volume 15 Issue 4 - 2006

Childbirth, Politics & the Culture of Risk


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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Cultures of Life: Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing
Vol 18/4, 1st Dec 2009


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Vol 18/2, 1st Jun 2009


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Vol 17/4, 1st Dec 2008


Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ People
Vol 17/3, 1st Aug 2008


Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
Vol 17/2, 1st Jun 2008


Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century
Vol 16/5, 1st Dec 2007


Social Equity and Health
Vol 16/2, 1st Jun 2007


Medical Dominance Revisited
Vol 15/5, 1st Dec 2006


Childbirth, Politics & the Culture of Risk
Vol 15/4, 1st Oct 2006


Revisiting Sexualities and Health
Vol 15/3, 1st Aug 2006


Closing Asylums for the Mentally Ill: Social Consequences
Vol 14/3, 1st Dec 2005


Workplace Health: The Injuries of Neoliberalism
Vol 14/1, 1st Aug 2005


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Selected Articles

The Turn to Inwardness and Cancer Survivorship
Heather McKenzie


Performing Birth in a Culture of Fear
Kerreen Reiger, Rhea Dempsey


Visibilising Clinical Work
Rick Iedema, Debbie Long, Rowena Forsyth


Women's Health
Toni Schofield


Constructing menopause knowledge through socio-material practices
Marilys Guillemin


A Sociological Approach to Workforce Shortages
Fran Collyer


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