'My work is to help the woman who wants to have a child, not the woman who wants to have an abortion' Discourses of patriarchy and power among African nurses in …

L Walker - African Studies, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
This paper details the responses of a group of African Primary Health Care Nurses (PHCNs),
practising in Soweto clinics, to the issue of abortion. The majority of nurses interviewed—70 …

The practice of primary health care: a case study

L Walker - Social science & medicine, 1995 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the practice of Primary Health Care in Soweto. It does so through an
investigation into the work of a group of Primary Health Care Nurses (PHCNs) who are …

A descriptive analysis of South African and Islamic abortion legislation and local Muslim community responses

N Moosa - Med. & L., 2002 - HeinOnline
The issue of abortion has been the subject of much debate in the recent past in South Africa.
Prior to 1996 abortion legislation was punitive and therefore one with which conservative …

[PDF][PDF] Unwanted fertility; contraception and induced abortion in South Africa

GE Rossouw, JPH & du Plessis - Southern African Journal of …, 1994 - journals.co.za
Research findings on the prevalence of unwanted fertility and induced abortion in South
Africa are discussed. Attention is drawn to the historical, health and demographic aspects of …

Bill on demand: South African newspapers fighting the abortion issue in 1995/96

T Skjerdal - Ecquid Novi, 2000 - journals.co.za
This study seeks to explore the mediated discourse of the South African abortion debate
1995/96. It is limited to the editorials in 13 of the largest newspapers, totalling a number of …

It's Safer on the Streets

L Walker, P McKenzie - Agenda, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
Legal abortions are not always safe or empathically performed. LIZ WALKER and PENNY
MCKENZIE discovered some shocking facts during interviews with women who had been …

[PDF][PDF] Abortion: Some insights into power and patriarchy

L Walker - 1995 - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
As in the rest of the world, abortion in South Africa, is a pressing social proble (2). It is also
an issue about which we know and understand very little, in part because the question of …

Criminal abortion and concealment of birth in Transkei Region, South Africa

BL Meel - Medicine, science and the law, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
The objective was to estimate the incidence of criminal abortions and concealment of births
in Transkei. This paper presents a review of the records of the medico-legal register at …

[PDF][PDF] Social policies, gender and health in South Africa

CC Jinabhai - … : proceedings of a workshop held in …, 1994 - idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org
Gender, Health, and Sustainable Development - Proceedings of a Workshop held in Nairobi,
Kenya, 5-8 October 1993 Page 1 ARCHIV WIJEYA 97690 Gender, Health, and Sustainable …

[引用][C] Efforts to reduce abortion-related mortality in South Africa

KE Dickson-Tetteh, HV Rees - 1999