Midwifery on Trial: Balancing Privacy Rights and Health Concerns after Roe v. Wade

The Stress of Caring: The Manifestation of Stress in the Nurse-Patient Relationship

“…This could, in turn, be expected to impact on the nurse-patient relationship and ultimately also on help-seeking behaviour. These findings are not unique: international studies (Brown, 2003;Lay, 2003;Lay, Wahlstrom & Brown, 1996;Lupton & Fenwick, 2001;Peckover, 2002;Steenkamp & van der Merwe, 1998;Wilson, 2001) and local studies (Abrahams et al, 2001;Jewkes et al, 1998) have focused on the power relations inherent in the nurse-patient relationship in maternity wards.…”

“…Foucault's work has been extensively used in discussions of power relationships in the context of the medical and nursing professions (e.g. Brown, 2003;Ceci, 2003Ceci, , 2004Gastaldo & Holmes, 1999;Georges & McGuire, 2004;Gilbert, 1995;Heartfield, 1996;Huntington & Gilmour, 2001;Kettunen, Poskiparta & Gerlander, 2002;Lay, 2003;Lay, Wahlstrom & Brown, 1996;Lupton & Fenwick, 2001;Peckover, 2002;Porter, 1996;Pryce, 2000;Riley & Manias, 2002;Wilson, 2001). Interestingly, however, none of these studies used a Foucauldian framework to analyse the widelyreported phenomenon of patient abuse.…”

The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

“…There is a growing influx of postcolonialist and globalist theoretical orientations (Diaz, 2003;Durham, 2001;Hegde, 1999;McKinley & Jensen, 2003;Parameswaran, 1999;Ram, 2002), as well as influence from womanist theory and critical race theory (Behling, 2002;Carlson, 1999;Hamlet, 2000;Ono & Buescher, 2001). We found echoes of poststructuralist theory in several critical pieces (e.g., Dow, 2001;Lay, 2003;Rockler, 2001;Sloop, 2000;Townsley & Geist, 2000), and several essays also engaged the various understandings of "Third Wave" feminism (Diaz, 2003;Hogeland, 2001;Lotz, 2003;Shugart, 2001;Shugart, Egley, & Hallstein, 2001).…”

“…There has been, for example, a significant growth in studies of gender and health communication. Although we include some examples here, primarily in the first two categories, such as the critique of abortion rhetoric (Lay, 2003;Stormer, 2001) and critical analysis of mediated discourse about AIDS, sex education, menstruation, or anorexia (Charlesworth, 2001(Charlesworth, , 2003Hayden, 2001;Lager & McGee, 2003;Myrick, 1999), there is also qualitative work (Dorgan, Williams, Parrott, & Harris, 2003). We know also that quantitative and qualitative work on gender and health appears in such journals as Health Communication and the Journal of Applied Communication, which we did not survey.…”

Feminist Interventions in Biomedical Discourse: An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Integrative Medicine

“…Thi s movement was catalyzed by the legal battle ove r a woman 's right to choose and quickl y spread to includ e a variety of other health care-related topics (Lay, 2003 ;Loustaunau & Sobo, 1997 ). Specific ally, Carol Weisman (1998) maint ains that "the medical profession was perce ived as treating women in a condescending manner, withh oldin g information, overusi ng surgery and risky drugs and devices, medicalizing women's reproductiv e functions, and reinforcing sexual stereo types" (p. 72).…”