2013
DOI: 10.12927/hcpol.2013.23592
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Standards and Stories: The Interactional Work of Informed Choice in Ontario Midwifery Care

Abstract: This paper uses a discourse-rhetorical approach to analyze how Ontario midwives and their clients interactionally accomplish the healthcare communicative process of "informed choice." Working with four excerpts from recorded visits between Ontario midwives and women, the analysis focuses on the discursive rendering during informed choice conversations of two contrasting kinds of evidence -professional standards and story-telling -related to potential interventions during labour. We draw on the concepts of disc… Show more

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