Questions of Illegitimacy in Birth Research: A Researcher on the Wrong Side of the Blanket?(Personal Account‪)‬

This article explores the structural barriers to narrative-based research in clinical contexts, such as hospital delivery rooms. It recounts an experience in a Melbourne, Australia clinical research setting where uncertainty and potential "illegitimacy" formed the basis for a successful project and multiple valuable research outcomes. Cet article se penche sur les obstacles structurels a la recherche narrative dans un contexte clinique, comme les salles d'accouchement. Il raconte une experience vecue dans un milieu du recherche clinique australien, a Melbourne, ou l'incertitude et l'illegitimite potenfiellle constituent la base d'un projet reussi et des resultats multiples et positifs de recherche.