I always appreciate people who try to not hoard knowledge and who actually work to find ways to share their access to information. I think that's why in an increasingly gentrified field like midwifery where midwives are increasingly being trained to work in close partnership with hospitals and doctors, handing over births that are being defined as "high risk" meaning they will now fall under the aegis of surgeons with knives and drugs and invasive equipment, where some people have been referring to midwives as medwives citing their increasingly intricate linkage, bondage to a medical "health" establishment bent on obliterating wimmin's open source knowledge of birthing passed down from generation to generation from time immemorial...the idea of putting knowledge out there where it can be reviewed and discussed and critiqued and challenged and shared and admired makes a lot of fucking beautiful sense as far as I'm concerned. :)
Talking about an open access midwifery journal
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Hi Dark daughta, thank you for your kind comments. I was talking to some midwives in Switzerland and Pakistan today who are also keen on the idea, so I'll let you know how we go :)
I've done a full analysis of the open access journals that are around for midwives and I have come to the conclusion that the 'Women and Birth' is a very viable option for midwives wanting to publish their work in a credible academic open access journal: http://www.womenandbirth.org/home
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