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The Role of the ‘Safe Maverick’ in NHS Maternity Services

Georgia Clancy Despite mainstream sociology being slow to apply the lens of risk to reproduction (Oakley, 2016) the language, knowledge, practices and negotiation of risk and uncertainty permeates childbirth and opens up a wealth of ideas and arguments about risk (Possamai-Inesedy, 2006). Indeed, Scamell (2011) argues that risk has come to underpin the development of […]

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