Lynette (Lynne) Staff & Meredith Nash
University of Tasmania, Australia
Biography
Lynne has been a midwife for 35 years and has worked in the public and private sectors across all areas of midwifery. She has taught midwifery in both hospital and tertiary settings and is currently a lecturer in midwifery at the University of Tasmania. A PhD candidate, Lynne is particularly interested in history, technology, the sociology of reproduction, and complex bioethical reproductive issues that face health care professionals involved in maternity care. She is a PhD candidate researching the meanings that healthy women experiencing a normal healthy first pregnancy attach to labour and vaginal birth and to CS.
Abstract
Abstract : Brain death during pregnancy and prolonged corporeal support of the body: a critical discussion