Pandemia COVID-19 ukazała, jak duży wpływ na społeczne reakcje mają nie obiektywne dane, lecz subiektywne przekonania ludzi. Autor, bazując konstrukcjonizmie społecznym, analizuje, w jaki sposób biowładza i medykalizacja oddziaływały zachowania ludzi czasach kryzysu COVID-19. W zarządzaniu reakcjami społecznymi ważnym czynnikiem stała się polityka informacyjna rządów, spójność dyskursach eksper...

Australia is now one of the safest countries in the world in which to be born. This is largely a result of the many advances in obstetric and neonatal medicine of the past 50 years. However, the "medicalisation" of birth has tended to diminish women's satisfaction with their experience of childbirth. It has been shown that women are most satisfied by care from a single practitioner, and when th...

Dealing with difficult patients can represent a significant burden in the life of doctors. It is more productive, however, to view this burden as a product of the interaction between doctor and patient, for which both have a responsibility, rather than attributing any problems encountered to shortcomings of the patient alone. There is a significant risk in such situations of potentially harmful...

The relations between survivors and disability and between the survivors' and disabled people's movements are complex and there is little agreement about them. For example, there was only one mention of survivors in Jane Campbell and Mike Oliver's major examination of disability politics and the only organisation referred to is an organisation for mental health service users (Campbell and Olive...

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2002 Practising Midwife 5(11):22-23. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. Midwives often talk about how we can recollect the kinds of knowledge which were held by our predecessors who attended births before they wer...