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Midwives’ care on a labour ward prior to the introduction of a midwifery model of care: a field of tension

Nilsson, Christina; Ólafsdóttir, Ólöf Ásta; Lundgren, Ingela; Berg, Marie; Dellenborg, Lisen (Informa UK Limited, 2019-01-01)

Purpose: There is a need to deepen knowledge about midwives’ care in obstetric-led labour wards in which midwives are responsible for normal births. This ethnographic study explores the content and meaning of midwives’ care of women in a hospital-based ...
Subarctic singers: Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) song structure and progression from an Icelandic feeding ground during winter

Magnúsdóttir, Edda; Lim, Rangyn (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-01-23)

Humpback whale songs associated with breeding behaviors are increasingly reported outside of traditional low latitude breeding grounds. Songs from a subarctic feeding ground during the winter were quantitatively characterized to investigate the structure ...
The uses and abuses of the past: cultural rhetoric and the unmaking of a moral universe

Hafsteinsson, Sigurjón Baldur; Grétarsdóttir, Tinna; Árnason, Arnar (Index Copernicus, 2014-12-12)

It is well established ethnographically that history is a particularly important and celebrated aspect of Icelandic identity. Paraphrasing Hastrup, it could be argued that Icelandic culture is a culture of the past. The collapse in Iceland in 2008 ...

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