RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 ‘She can't come here!’ Ethics and the case of birth centre admission policy in the UK
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 813
OP 816
DO 10.1136/medethics-2013-101847
VO 40
IS 12
A1 Mandie Scamell
YR 2014
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/40/12/813.abstract
AB Using ethnographic data lifted from an investigation into midwifery talk and practice in the South of England, this paper sets out to interrogate the ethics underpinning current admission policy for Free Standing (midwifery led) Birth Centres in the UK. The aim of this interrogation is to contest the grounds upon which birth centres admissions are managed, particularly the over-reliance on abstract calculations of risk—far removed from the material lived experience of the mother wishing to access these birth centre services.