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"How's the baby doing?" Struggling with narratives of progress in a neonatal intensive care unit

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Title

"How's the baby doing?" Struggling with narratives of progress in a neonatal intensive care unit

Description

Describes the processes pf "knowledge-making" of one neonatal intensive care unit.
Explores how the discrepancy between narratives of linear progress and the complex and volatile condition of many premature and/or critically ill babies is discursively managed in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Creator

Linda L. Layne

Source

Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 10.4. Dec 1996. p. 624-656.
GN296 MAQ NO.4 1996.

Date

1996

Contributor

seah

Format

Article journal