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- Title
Between Standards and Voluntariness: Midwives' Alignment Work in Antenatal Care.
- Authors
Gleisner, Jenny
- Abstract
Antenatal care in Sweden is voluntary but offered to all pregnant persons. It is organised in accordance with a standardised programme where midwives do pregnancy check-ups and inform about pregnancy, childbirth and becoming parents. But a standardised programme can be difficult to apply to the varying individuals' wants and needs. Through interviews with midwives and observation of parental education, the article attends to the tension that arises between standards and voluntariness in antenatal care and the often-invisible alignment work done by midwives to make knowledge attractive and palatable to parents-to-be. It does so by showing that the recipients wanting the knowledge becomes important for it to be moved with stability and integrity without losing meaning. The article contributes to ongoing discussions about how scientific knowledge is turned into practice by elucidating the affective dimensions of alignment work and how feelings may facilitate or hinder the movement of knowledge.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; PRENATAL care; MIDWIVES; SCIENTIFIC knowledge; CHILDBIRTH; PREGNANCY; TEENAGE parents
- Publication
Science & Technology Studies, 2023, Vol 36, Issue 4, p26
- ISSN
2243-4690
- Publication type
Article