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The relationality of maternity care: A diffractive analysis of maternity care experiences
Ella Kurz1, Deborah Davis2, Jenny Browne1
1Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Problem:
Pervasive polemics of differing approaches to and values of maternity care limit possibilities of nuanced and productive understandings of how maternity care is experienced.
Aim:
To explore how maternity care identities (midwife, obstetrician, childbearing woman) are shaped by binarised conceptualisations of childbirth.
Methods:
The diffractive analysis of data gathered in collective biography research groups.
Findings And Discussion:
Maternity care identities are not complete, pre-established entities, but rather are, 'in the making', remade in every maternity care encounter.
Conclusion:
Maternity care identities are defined by their encounters with other maternity care identities, and therefore, each maternity care identity plays a role in which experiences of maternity care come into being.
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