Power, care and risk: personal reflections on pregnancy and childbirth
(2014)
Presentation / Conference
Emmerich, F. (2014, October). Power, care and risk: personal reflections on pregnancy and childbirth. Paper presented at Putting the 'Care' Back in Healthcare, Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele School of Law, Keele University
The paper theorises through a power/gender framework the author's personal experiences of an externally labelled 'difficult pregnancy' and the procedural consequences for childbirth. The author argues that the language and technologies of risk produc... Read More about Power, care and risk: personal reflections on pregnancy and childbirth.