Abstract
The article describes how medical information is perceived by a group of mothers who practice attachment parenting when the information is provided by health professionals. Data were collected through 21 semi-structured interviews and the auto-ethnographic experience of one of the authors. Two major themes emerged. Firstly, the participants experience an informational conflict as a consequence of their interaction with health staff. The information they receive from the pediatrician may clash with both internal and external information sources, including some trusted information sources such as other doctors. Secondly, the information obtained from health professionals is influenced by the doctor – patient relationship that the participants perceive as unequal. Within this unequal relationship, patients are unable to contribute all the information they could and receive some information negatively. These phenomena are described and analyzed within the relevant literature and quoting significant fragments of the interviews.
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