La théorie sociale classique et contemporaine s' est beaucoup preoccupee de la question
de la mobilité occupationnelle. Selon les sociologues fonctionnalistes, la modernisation de …

Functionalist scholars have long regarded health service professions as enjoying special
privileges because of their pivotal societal function: quality care of citizens. Fusion of service …

This study follows the passage of Newfoundland and Labrador midwifery through three
distinctive phases of occupational practice--the traditional, early modern and contemporary …

In 1992, Alberta became the second Canadian province to legalize midwifery. This
happened even though there were only approximately 20 midwives in practice at the time …

This paper uses documentary evidence, interviews, and participant observation to examine
the professionalizing activities of lay midwives in Colorado. It shows that professionalization …

A cross-cultural comparison of midwifery in Great Britain and the United States reveals its
successful institutionalization in the former and failure in the latter country. Struck by this …

This chapter examines midwifery in Wisconsin. Wisconsin was fairly typical in its political
stance toward midwives. A study of childbearing conditions by the Children's Bureau in …

The social movement (s) with which the midwives and their clients in Ontario have been
connected since the late 1970's has tended to take an increasingly subordinate focus to that …

In seeking to protect their occupational autonomy, modern midwives assert their
independent, professional status as licensed practitioners, On one historical interpretation …

This chapter examines the status of midwifery autonomy in the context of the provision of
maternity care since the Griffiths Report (DHSS, 1983). An understanding of what autonomy …