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Troubling care in the neonatal intensive care unit
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Naylor L
; Clarke-Sather A
; Weber M
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2020[Aug]; 114
(ä): 107-116
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The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a site of medical treatment for
premature and critically ill infants. It is a space populated by medical teams
and their patients, as well as parents and family. Each actor in this space
negotiates providing and practicing care. In this paper, we step away from
thinking about the NICU as only a space of medical care, instead, taking an
anti-essentialist view, re-read care as multiple, while also troubling the
community of care that undergirds it. Through an examination of the practice of
kangaroo care (skin-to-skin holding), human milk production and feeding, as well
as, practices related to contact/touch, we offer a portrait of the performance of
the community of care in the space of the NICU. We argue that caring practices
taking place in the NICU are multiple and co-produced, while simultaneously being
subject to power and knowledge differentials between actors. Here we analyze the
negotiations over the knowledge and practice of care(s) to open up the NICU as a
particular community of care, and consider care as a both a joint accomplishment
and a gatekeeping practice.