… DD as a personal service job striving for occupational legitimacy [11]. The authors have also
… systems can again be seen in midwifery, where not all midwives accept the BD role while …

… For instance, midwives and many expectant mothers may think that home births are best but
… loss are trying to define miscarriage as a legitimate source of grief, although there is no co-…

Drawing on Foucauldian biopolitics, Max Weber's and Hannah Arendt's understandings of
bureaucracy, and Achille Mbembe's theoretical insights into necropolitical power, I propose …

… legitimacy among the female electorate. Although these factors certainly contributed to the
debates surrounding midwifery … The death of an infant at a midwife-attended home birth in …

… midwives and their supporters in their struggles to legitimate … of social groups such as
classes, genders, races, and nations. … midwifery practice at a coroner's inquest into a baby death …

… of midwives, but in order to prevent a shortage of midwifery … which lay midwives could register
as legitimate practitioners. … and death are now legally delegated to the practicing midwife." …

… midwives that led to the inquiry as well as the profound impact that the inquiry has had on
the midwives in the Maternity Unit, and indeed midwives … as evidence for legitimate claims to …

… They fortified their profession’s legitimacy by drawing comparisons with those who failed to
uphold the same rigorous standards: lay midwives who lacked the same academic training. …

… death during pregnancy crises in isolated regions, midwives … midwives in so-called Third
World countries like Costa Rica-… enhanced and diminished the legitimacy of the Costa Rican …

… midwife–institution relationship over a midwife–woman relationship are in themselves
unethical and inimical to the midwifery … In this way, it also questions the legitimacy of the ‘informed …