Mothers' accounts of healthcare encounters: Negotiating culpability and fulfilling the active mother role  

Oleh:

Gunnarsson, Nina V. ; Hemmingsson, Helena ; Hyden, Lars-Christer

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Society (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 4 (Jul. 2013), page 446.
Topik: Child allergy; healthcare interactions; moral agency; motherhood; narrative accounts; narrative/ discourse analysis; negotiating culpability; parent responsibility; performances of self; Sweden
Fulltext: Discourse Society-2013-Gunnarsson-446-60.pdf (375.95KB)

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This article explores mothers’ accounts of initial interactions and encounters with healthcare professionals and the outcomes where questions about their children’s problems are concerned. A case-based storyline was reconstructed as part of the analysis, focusing on when and how mothers claimed to be responsible parents. The outcomes of these encounters were presented by the mothers in this study as a drawn-out process, with disagreement between mothers and healthcare providers, resulting in different performances of moral agency. Some mothers portrayed themselves as dependent on healthcare expertise and made moral claims by attributing and deflecting blame, negotiating back and forth about their own and the healthcare professionals’ culpability, restoring moral agency. Other mothers did not generally defend or justify their actions or place blame, but appealed instead to fulfilment of the active mother role where they controlled the interaction and claimed full responsibility for their child’s care, hence presenting their moral agency as indisputable.

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