2006/11/27 by Murray W. Enkin, Murray Enkin, Sholom Glouberman +3 · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Medicine · #Global Maternal and Child Health #Healthcare Policy and Management #Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1523-536x.2006.00117.x
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Preface: This paper has been gestating for a long time‐‐the sixty years that I have been associated with maternity care. It was conceived during an era of medical authoritarianism, born in a time of nascent childbirth education and family‐centered maternity care, matured in a period of enthusiastic (but not unquestioning) homage to evidence‐based obstetrics, and culminated in a reluctant but comforting acceptance of uncertainty. It has passed through stages of enthusiasm, of disillusionment, and of reevaluation. It is, to use an ancient word I only recently learned, a clinamen, a swerve, a point of intellectual revision. Others in the Clinamen Collaboration share the authorship of this paper with me. Murray Enkin