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Reconcilable differences?: Portuguese obstetricians' and midwives' contrasting perspectives on childbirth, and women’s birthing experiences (2018)
Journal Article

Based on recent ethnographic research in Portugal, this paper examines contrasting perspectives of doctors and midwives regarding their roles in childbirth, the institutional contexts in which these divergent perspectives are enacted and sustained, a... Read More about Reconcilable differences?: Portuguese obstetricians' and midwives' contrasting perspectives on childbirth, and women’s birthing experiences.

Preparing midwifery students for traumatic workplace events: Findings from the POPPY (programme for the prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in midwifery) feasibility study (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Midwifery students can experience events on clinical placements that they perceive to be traumatic. There is currently no requirement to provide training about the nature of trauma, normal responses, or the most helpful ways of self-manag... Read More about Preparing midwifery students for traumatic workplace events: Findings from the POPPY (programme for the prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in midwifery) feasibility study.

No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices (2018)
Journal Article

Objectives: Recent research on the signal value of masculine physical characteristics in men has focused on the possibility that such characteristics are valid cues of physical strength. However, evidence that sexually dimorphic vocal characteristics... Read More about No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices.