The Textual Standardization of Midwives' Professional Relationships
This article develops a rhetorical analysis of a selection of documents pro-duced by the College of Midwives of Ontario for regulating the profession of midwifery. We explore the contextual-textual tensions addressed and inscribed by the CMO meta-genre by focusing on the rhetorical incongruities an...
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2003-10-01
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| description | This article develops a rhetorical analysis of a selection of documents pro-duced by the College of Midwives of Ontario for regulating the profession of midwifery. We explore the contextual-textual tensions addressed and inscribed by the CMO meta-genre by focusing on the rhetorical incongruities and com-peting values in three standards that regulate midwives' professional rela-tionships: 1) Philosophy of Midwifery Care in Ontario, 2) Continuity of Care, and 3) Indications for Mandatory Discussion, Consultation and Transfer of Care. Our analysis of the mixed, incongruous terministic screens in these standards reveals key ideological and practical tensions that inform mid-wifery's rhetorical negotiation of its new and uneasy status within the domi-nant healthcare system. This negotiation process at once foregrounds and reconfigures, in heterogeneous ways, the central, intimate relationsl1ip of trust between midwives and the women for whom they care that constitutes a fundamental value of pre-regulation midwifery. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2b4a57e1c6554ae8bec71e5338af83b02022-12-22T02:51:55ZengCanadian Association for the Study of Discourse and WritingDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie2563-73202003-10-01191329doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.512The Textual Standardization of Midwives' Professional RelationshipsPhilippa SpoelSusan JamesThis article develops a rhetorical analysis of a selection of documents pro-duced by the College of Midwives of Ontario for regulating the profession of midwifery. We explore the contextual-textual tensions addressed and inscribed by the CMO meta-genre by focusing on the rhetorical incongruities and com-peting values in three standards that regulate midwives' professional rela-tionships: 1) Philosophy of Midwifery Care in Ontario, 2) Continuity of Care, and 3) Indications for Mandatory Discussion, Consultation and Transfer of Care. Our analysis of the mixed, incongruous terministic screens in these standards reveals key ideological and practical tensions that inform mid-wifery's rhetorical negotiation of its new and uneasy status within the domi-nant healthcare system. This negotiation process at once foregrounds and reconfigures, in heterogeneous ways, the central, intimate relationsl1ip of trust between midwives and the women for whom they care that constitutes a fundamental value of pre-regulation midwifery.https://journals.sfu.ca/dwr/index.php/dwr/article/view/512midwives |
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