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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Authoritative Knowledge"”.
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"We Listen to Women": Exploring Midwifery in Virginia from Certified Nurse-Midwives and Certified Professional Midwives
… for midwifery. The dominance of medical authoritative knowledge of childbirth in the United States creates struggles for midwives. Consequently networking and consumer advocacy are cited as vehicles for the growth of midwifery.
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Displacing War Experience: Military Technology and the More-than-Human Politics of Empire
… rooted in the human body, providing uniquely authoritative knowledge about conflict. To address this puzzle, this thesis develops a theory of war experience that foregrounds the role of technology in the imperial history of world politics. I ask: What are the historical and conceptual …
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From alchemy to epistemology : intuition and private midwifery in Australia
… their practice. There were two themes, trust and knowledge, showing how the occurrence of intuition was influenced by relationships and environment. Issues related to trusting the relationship with women in their care, trusting the women and trusting themselves affected the use of intuition. …
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A descriptive phenomenological study of independent midwives' utilisation of intuition as an authoritative form of knowledge in practice
… care, there has emerged a hegemonic emphasis on knowledge that is based on scientific principles. Arguably, there is also a role for intuition in healthcare. Indeed, leading midwives, educationalists and researchers in related fields have hailed the important role of intuition in advancing …
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Contesting transdisciplinary climate knowledge: a decolonial perspective on the FRACTAL project in Windhoek, Namibia
… propagated transdisciplinary approaches in knowledge production. These new modes of knowledge production seek to deconstruct universalist principles and epistemic authorities from positivist research approaches. The potential of replicating existing power dynamics into these …