Medicalization Of Pregnancy And Birth

The evolution of birth medicalisation: A systematic review

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30176390/

A total of 112 documents (107 articles, 3 book chapters, 2 books) has been identified, grouped and categorised into five main themes in the results section (1) the theoretical evolution of the concept of medicalisation, (2) factors related to the birth …

Pregnancy, Birth, and Medicine - Stanford Encyclopedia …

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-pregnancy/

The Medicalization of Pregnancy: From Midwives …

https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/Medicalization-of-Pregnancy-and-Childbirth-The-History-of-Midwives-To-A-Male-Dominated-Profession

Changes in the medical field due to professionalization eventually led to the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth …

The Medicalization of Birth | Modern Midwives Blog | Call …

https://www.pbs.org/call-the-midwife/blog/the-medicalization-of-birth

Characteristics of a more medicalized birth are: depersonalized and fragmented care mother and baby are seen as separate mistrust in normal physiology …

The evolution of birth medicalisation: A systematic review

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0266613818302377

Similarly, in practice, birth medicalisation allows the prevention of many potentially traumatic or lethal situations ( Waggoner and Stults, 2010 ). With regard to this …

The Medicalization of Birth in the United States of America

https://sbubrooklogue.com/2021/03/20/the-medicalization-of-birth-in-the-united-states-of-america/

A common medicalized cycle of birth is as follows: (1) Pitocin is administered to speed up the labor, which creates pain and tension in the pregnant individual, which …

Childbirth: myths and medicalization - World Health …

https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/277738/Childbirth_myths-and-medicalization.pdf

Birth centres may be free standing or may be adjacent to, or within maternity hospitals. The Birthplace data identi-fied that when birth took place in either a freestanding or alongside …

The medicalization of birth and midwifery as resistance

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23514572/

In recent years, there has been a resurgence in midwifery that is framed by a feminist discourse of women's reproductive rights. Many researchers believe that women who …

Has the medicalisation of childbirth gone …

https://www.bmj.com/content/324/7342/892

Obstetricians play an important role in preserving lives when there are complications of pregnancy or labour In developed countries, however, obstetrician involvement and medical …

Overmedicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335069542_Overmedicalization_of_Pregnancy_and_Childbirth

Medicalization is defined as the use of medical interventions for non-medical problems, which in itself is neither bad nor good. 1, 2 Medical interventions are currently …