Doctoral Dissertation Research: Legal and Regulatory Inconsistency at the Community Level

博士论文研究：社区层面的法律和监管不一致

• 批准号: 1823672
• 负责人: Kim Lane Scheppele
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Legal; Regulatory

Title: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Legal and Regulatory Inconsistency at the Community LevelAbstract: Many professions in the U.S exist in a legal context of regulatory inconsistency across the various jurisdictions in which the practice operates, leading to a lack of stability regarding the legality of those professions. A prime example concerns how childbirth occurs in the U.S, as more families seek alternatives to standard hospital-based, obstetrician-attended medicated birth, such as home birth. Certified Professional Midwives, the professional providers specifically trained to provide care to the growing community of families choosing home birth, are regulated by enormously varied laws and policies. This project will investigate the legal setting of home birth midwifery in the context of varied communities of practice and their responses to differing regulatory frameworks.Using mixed-methods to analyze the inconsistent legal environment of home birth, the project will employ an ethnographic approach, including in-depth interviews and analysis of archival data collected across varied jurisdictional contexts. The study will investigate responses to a lack of stability about state treatment of expertise that characterizes the regulatory context of home birth. The research design includes participant observation centered around the practices of home birth professionals in several field sites. Ethnographic research will be supplemented by interviews with officials charged with regulating the practice of home birth midwifery and with other members of the professional networks of home birth midwives. Findings will contribute to an understanding of the relationship between legal consciousness, regulatory arrangements, and the politics of expertise and professionalization. Additionally, the project will provide implications of existing regulatory strategies by illuminating how practitioners respond to the various models of licensure currently in use across the country.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

标题：博士论文研究：社区层面的法律和监管不一致摘要：美国的许多职业存在于不同司法管辖区的监管不一致的法律背景中，这导致这些职业的合法性缺乏稳定性。一个主要的例子是，随着越来越多的家庭寻求替代标准的医院分娩、产科医生参与的药物分娩，如在家分娩，分娩在美国是如何发生的。注册专业助产士是经过专门培训的专业助产士，为越来越多选择在家分娩的家庭提供护理，受到各种法律和政策的监管。该项目将在不同实践社区的背景下调查居家分娩助产的法律环境及其对不同监管框架的反应。该项目将使用混合方法来分析居家分娩不一致的法律环境，该项目将采用民族志方法，包括对在不同司法管辖区范围内收集的档案数据进行深入访谈和分析。这项研究将调查对国家对专家意见缺乏稳定性的反应，这是家庭分娩监管背景的特征。研究设计包括以家庭分娩专业人员在几个现场的实践为中心的参与者观察。除了人种学研究，还将采访负责监管家庭助产士做法的官员，以及家庭助产士专业网络的其他成员。调查结果将有助于理解法律意识、监管安排以及专业知识和专业化政治之间的关系。此外，该项目将通过阐明从业人员如何应对目前在全国各地使用的各种许可模式来提供现有监管战略的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。