Dr Sara Wickham discusses questions relating to normality. And goalposts. What can we learn from studies about urine output and new mothers’ sleep?
Normality and Goalposts
Tag: normal limits
The language of the complicated
Sara Wickham discusses how our languages focuses more on complication and risk than normality, and considers how this might affect women.
Questioning screening: food for thought
Are you aware that the vast majority of the things that midwives do during antenatal and postnatal checks and when looking after women in labour are actually screening tests? No matter whether we are checking a woman’s blood pressure, urine…
Stretching the fabric: from technocratic normal limits to holistic midwives’ negotiations of normalcy
The full text of Dr Sara Wickham’s 2011 article: Stretching the fabric: from technocratic normal limits to holistic midwives’ negotiations of normalcy.
Vitamin K: a flaw in the blueprint?
Dr Sara Wickham’s 2001 on vitamin K, in which she analysed the philosophical underpinnings of the medical-model approach to this.