Practising childbirth activism: a politics of evidence

Madeleine Akrich (1) , Maire Leane (2) , Celia Roberts (3) , João Arriscado Nunes (4)

1 CSI i3 - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3
2 UCC - University College Cork
3 Lancaster University
4 University of Coimbra

Shows that how knowledge-related activities are central to activism in childbirth organization, comparing the UK, Ireland, Portugal and France.

Mots clés: patients organisations; childirth; France; Portugal; UK; Ireland; evidence-based medicine; statistics

Domaines: Sociologie

Madeleine Akrich, Maire Leane, Celia Roberts, João Arriscado Nunes. Practising childbirth activism: a politics of evidence. 2012. ⟨halshs-00702075⟩