Medicalisation Of Child 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 …

The Medicalization of Birth | Modern Midwives Blog | Call the …

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

Childbirth: myths and medicalization - World Health …

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

place of birth. Options must include the provision of home birth, the availability of birth in a freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit or obstetric unit. Throughout Europe …

Exploring the medicalisation of childbirth through women's

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32094035/

Aim: To explore the medicalisation of childbirth through women's preferences for and use of pain relief, and to investigate whether the presence of a birth plan had any impact on …

The evolution of birth medicalisation: A systematic review

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

On an individual level, it is known that medicalisation of childbirth can hamper the embodiment process ( Shabot, 2016 ). It can also generate a forgetfulness of …

Has the medicalisation of childbirth gone …

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

Over the past few centuries childbirth has become increasingly influenced by medical technology, and now medical intervention is the norm in most Western …

Feminism, midwifery and the medicalisation …

https://www.britishjournalofmidwifery.com/content/birthwrite/feminism-midwifery-and-the-medicalisation-of-birth/

In the 18th century in the Western world, the men in the medical profession, such as Fielding Ould in Ireland and William Smellie in Scotland, were gaining …

Full article: The impact of technology on …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698575.2019.1649922

Generally speaking, the critiques of ‘medicalised birth’ or the biomedical birth models, which were present already in the 1950s (Michaels, Citation …

The Medicalisation of Childbirth and Access to homebirth in the …

https://academic.oup.com/medlaw/article/29/4/661/6403930

A significant body of work that explores how contemporary medical and social attitudes continue to perpetuate the hyper-medicalisation of childbirth, with the result …

Why is childbirth a medical procedure? - OpenLearn - Open …

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Routine interventions in childbirth include: artificial rupture of membranes caesarean section continuous electronic foetal monitoring epidural anaesthesia …