Schools of thought: the force behind the preservation of the autonomous midwife in the Netherlands

Bahareh Goodarzi

Midwifery Science, AVAG, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center

I qualified as a midwife in 2007 in the Netherlands. From 2007 to 2012 I worked as a primary care midwife in the Netherlands. While I worked as a midwife, I did a master in Health Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 2012 to 2015 I worked as a policy advisor at the Royal Dutch Collage of Midwives. Since 2011 I work as a lecturer at the Midwifery Academy in Amsterdam. I started my PhD project in 2015 at the Department of Midwifery Science, AVAG, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center. 

Abstract

Globally, the power struggle between obstetricians and midwives has been won long ago by obstetricians, resulting in the marginalization and hospitalization of the profession of midwifery. In the Netherlands however, the... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Bahareh Goodarzi (Midwifery Science, AVAG, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center)
  2. Lianne Holten (Midwifery Science, AVAG, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center)
  3. Carla Van El (Community Genetics of the Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center)
  4. Raymond De Vries (Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine University of Michigan Medical School)
  5. Arie Franx (University Medical Center Utrecht)
  6. Eddy Houwaart (Department Health, Ethics and Society Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences University Maastricht)

Topic Areas

Studies of and contributions to practice and/or service organisation , Studies of collaboration to improve maternal, infant, family, and maternity staff wellbein , Philosophical and theoretical critiques and debates

Session

concurr1 » Practice issues (10:40 - Monday, 2nd October, Carriage 3 (Boardroom))

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