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| M KirkmanSummaryAffiliation: University of Melbourne Country: Australia Publications
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Reasons women give for contemplating or undergoing abortion: a qualitative investigation in Victoria, AustraliaMaggie Kirkman
Centre for Women s Health, Gender and Society, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Sex Reprod Healthc 1:149-55. 2010..To increase understanding of women's perspectives on considering or undergoing elective abortion...
"Are we moving again this week?" Children's experiences of homelessness in Victoria, AustraliaMaggie Kirkman
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, The Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Soc Sci Med 70:994-1001. 2010..The overwhelming conclusion to be drawn from this research is that children affected by homelessness need security, stability, and the chance to become and remain part of a community...
Reasons women give for abortion: a review of the literatureMaggie Kirkman
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, The Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 3010
Arch Womens Ment Health 12:365-78. 2009..Women's reasons were complex and contingent, taking into account their own needs, a sense of responsibility to existing children and the potential child, and the contribution of significant others, including the genetic father...
Families working it out: adolescents' views on communicating about donor-assisted conceptionMaggie Kirkman
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Hum Reprod 22:2318-24. 2007....
Public health and the challenge of genomicsMaggie Kirkman
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 29:163-5. 2005..Furthermore, the intrinsic tension between genomics (with its individual and family choices) and public health (operating for the public good) may even necessitate a reconceptualisation of public health...
Egg and embryo donation and the meaning of motherhoodMaggie Kirkman
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Women Health 38:1-18. 2003..These accounts reveal individual variation, complexity, and change, reflecting (among other things) the dynamic process of narrative revision...
Parents' contributions to the narrative identity of offspring of donor-assisted conceptionMaggie Kirkman
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, 3010, Australia
Soc Sci Med 57:2229-42. 2003..From interviews with offspring and on the basis of human rights issues and the increasing salience of genetic knowledge, it is concluded that disclosure to offspring before adolescence should be encouraged...
Thinking of something to say: public and private narratives of infertilityM Kirkman
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Health Care Women Int 22:523-35. 2001..Infertility support groups play a role in the construction and dissemination of a public narrative of infertility that is not pathological...
Considering abortion: a 12-month audit of records of women contacting a Pregnancy Advisory ServiceHeather J Rowe
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 190:69-72. 2009..To characterise the demographic and psychosocial circumstances of women contacting Victoria's largest public pregnancy advisory service (PAS)...
Representations of reproductive technology in women's narratives of infertilityM Kirkman
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
Women Health 29:17-36. 1999..The women were consulted at each stage of the research to ensure that what was inferred from their stories remained true to their narrative construction of themselves...
HIV case loads of Australian GPs. Results of the national surveyM Kirkman
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Aust Fam Physician 28:966-70. 1999..This paper presents national survey data concerning the management of HIV positive patients by GPs...
Disciplinary discourses: rates of cesarean section explained by medicine, midwifery, and feminismAmy Su May Lee
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Health Care Women Int 29:448-67. 2008..The findings illustrate the complex ways in which this intervention in birth is discursively constructed, and demonstrate its significance as a site of disciplinary conflict...
Being an XY female: an analysis of accounts from the website of the androgen insensitivity syndrome support groupCameryn C Garrett
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Health Care Women Int 30:428-46. 2009..The results of this research have implications for the medical and psychological management of XY females...
