Articles
Adams, K., Faulkhead, S., Standfield, R., & Atkinson, P. (2018). Challenging the colonisation of birth: Koori women’s birthing knowledge and practice.
Barclay, L. (1986). Midwifery: A case of misleading packaging?
Barclay, L., (1989). What are the origins of the regulation, training and practice of midwifery in Australia (Presented at the ACMI 6th biennial conference, Darwin, NT)
Barclay, L., (1998). Midwifery in Australia and surrounding regions: Dilemmas, debates and development.
Barclay, L. (2008). A feminist history of Australian midwifery from colonisation until the 1980s.
Barnawi, N., Richter, S., & Habib, F. (2013). Midwifery and midwives: A historical analysis
Best, O., & Gorman, D. (2016). 'Some of us pushed forward and let the world see what could be done': Aboriginal Australian nurses and midwives 1900-2005
Best, O., & Bunda, T. (2020). Disrupting dominant discourse: Indigenous women as trained nursesand midwives 1900s–1950s.
Bogossian, F. (1998). A review of midwifery legislation in Australia - History, current state, and future directions.
Boyer, K., Hunter, B., & Davis, A. (2021). Birth stories: Childbirth, remembrance and 'everyday' heritage.
Brodie, P., & Barclay, L. (2001). Contemporary issues in Australian midwifery regulation.
Brodie, P. (2002). Addressing the barriers to midwifery - Australian midwives speaking out.
Cornwell, C. (2019). The more things change, the more what’s important stays the same.
Cutts, D., David P., McIntyre, M., Seibold, C., Hopkins, F. & Miller, M. (2003). Werna Naloo – ‘We Us Together’: the birth of a midwifery education consortium.
Dahlen, H. (2006). Midwifery: 'at the edge of history' (Keynote address given at the 27th International Confederation of Midwives, Brisbane, Australia, July 28th 2005, edited version)
Dahlen, H., Homer, C., Leap, N., & Tracy, S. (2011). From social to surgical: Historical perspectives on perineal care during labour and birth.
Davison, C., McKenzie, B., & Hauck, Y. (2021). Looking back moving forward: The history of midwifery in Western Australia.
Donnellan-Fernandez, R., Creedy, D., & Callander, E. (2018). Cost-effectiveness of midwifery care for women with complex pregnancy: A structured review of the literature.
Donnellan-Fernandez, R., Creedy, D., & Callander, E., Gamble, J., Toohill, J. (2020). Differential access to continuity of midwifery care in Queensland, Australia.
Donnellan-Fernandez, R.E. and Eastaugh, M. (2003). Midwifery regulation in Australia: a century of invisibility.
Fahy, K. (2007). An Australian history of the subordination of midwifery.
Gorman, D., Nielsen, A., & Best, O. (2006). Western medicine and Australian Indigenous healing practices.
Gray, J.E, & Smith, R.M. (2017). Any action? Reflections on the Australian Midwifery Action Project.
Gray, J., Leap, N., Sheehy, A., & Homer, C. (2012). The 'follow-through' experience in three-year Bachelor of Midwifery programs in Australia: A survey of students.
Grehan, M. (2004). ‘From the sphere of Sarah Gampism’: The professionalisation of nursing and midwifery in the Colony of Victoria.
Grehan, M. (2009). 'A most difficult and protracted labour case': Midwives, medical men, and coronial investigations into maternal deaths in nineteenth-century Victoria.
Grehan, M. (2009). Heroes or villains? midwives, nurses, and maternity care in mid-nineteenth-century Australia.
Hastie, C. (2006). Midwifery: Women, history and politics.
Homer, C.S.E., Passant, L., Kildea, S., Picombe, J., Thorogood, C., Leap, N., & Brodie, P. (2007). The development of national competency standards for the midwife in Australia.
Homer, C.S.E., Passant, L., Brodie, P., Kildea, S., Leap, N., Pincombe, J., & Thorogood, C. (2009). The role of the midwife in Australia: views of women and midwives.
Hunter, B. (1999). Oral History and Research Part 1: Uses and Implications.
Hunter, B. (1999). Oral history and research part 2: current practice.
Ireland, S., Belton, S. McGrath, A., Saggers, S., Wulili Narjic, C. (2015). Paperbark and pinard: A historical account of maternity care in one remote Australian Aboriginal town.
Kildea, S., Tracy, S., Sherwood, J., Magick-Dennis, F., & Barclay, L. (2016). Improving maternity services for Indigenous women in Australia: moving from policy to practice.
Kitschke, J. (2019). The Australian Bachelor of Midwifery - How it all began.
Leap, N. (1999). The introduction of 'direct entry' midwifery courses in Australian universities: Issues, myths, and a need for collaboration.
Leap, N. (2022). Twenty years on: A personal reflection on the development of the Bachelor of Midwifery in Australia.
Leap, N., Brodie, P., & Tracy, S. (2017). Collective action for the development of national standards for midwifery education in Australia.
Lewis. M.J. (2014). Medicine in colonial Australia 1788-1900
Madsen, W. (2003). The age of transition: Nursing and caring in the nineteenth century
McCalman, J. (1998). The power of care: The Women's Hospital 1884-1914.
Peters, M. (1995). Unity in diversity oration (presented at the Inaugural Investiture of Fellows of the Australian College of Midwives Sydney, 11 September, 1995)
Pincombe, J, Thorogood, C, & Kitschke, J. (2003). The development of National ACMI Standards for the accreditation of three-year Bachelor of Midwifery programs.
Potter, L. (2018). Janet McTavish: Tasmanian immigrant, midwife, and prominent citizen.
Potter, L. (2020). Midwifery, nursing, and medical care on the high seas: An immigration voyage to colonial Australia 1848-1849
Reiger, K. (2000). The politics of midwifery in Australia: Tensions, debates, and opportunities.
Reiger, K. (2006). Domination or mutual recognition? Professional subjectivity in midwifery and obstetrics.
Schillace, B. (2014). Naissance Macabre: Birth, Death, and Female Anatomy.
Small, K., Sidebotham, M., Fenwick, J., Gamble, J. (2016). Midwifery prescribing in Australia.
Stojanovic, J. (2010). Midwifery in New Zealand, 1904-1971.
Summers, A. (1997). Sairy Gamp: Generating fact from fiction.
Summers, A. (1998). The lost voice of midwifery: Midwives, Nurses and the Nurses Registration Act of South Australia.
Summers, A. (2000). A different start: Midwifery in South Australia 1836-1920.
Summers, A. (2007). Three nursing legacies: Nightingale, medicine, and technology and their impact on nursing practice.
Tierney, O., Sweet, L., Houston, D., & Ebert, L. (2018). A historical account of the governance of midwifery education in Australia and the evolution of the Continuity of Care Experience
Tracy, S., Barclay, L., & Brodie, P. (2000). Contemporary issues in the workforce and education of Australian midwives.
Wright, A. (1998). Australian Midwifery: Past, present and future.
MASTERS AND DOCTORAL THESES
Alexander, A. (1989). The public role of women in Tasmania 1803 - 1914. (Doctoral thesis).
Beechey, D. (2003). Eureka! Women and birthing on the Ballarat goldfields in the 1850s (Masters thesis).
Brodie, P. (2003). The invisibility of midwifery: Will professional capital make a difference? (Doctoral thesis).
Davies, R. (2003). 'She did what she could...' A history of the the regulation of midwifery practice in Queensland 1859-1912. (Doctoral thesis).
Davison, C. (2019). Looking back and moving forward: A history and discussion of privately practising midwives in Western Australia (Doctoral thesis).
Leap, N. (2005). Rhetoric and reality: Narrowing the gap in Australian Midwifery (Doctoral thesis).
McGuinness, B. (1997). Women's ways of birthing in Ballarat in the 1940s. (Masters thesis).
McKenzie, B. (2015). Place and power: A history of maternity service provision in Western Australia, 1829-1950. (Doctoral thesis).
Summers, A. (1995). ‘For I have ever so much faith in her ability as a nurse’: The eclipse of the community midwife in South Australia 1836-1942 (Doctoral thesis).
Thorogood, C. (2000). Politics and the professions: Homebirth in Western Australia (Doctoral thesis).