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    Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth

    Posted By: arundhati
    Date: 10 Oct 2023 02:56:54
    Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth

    Isabel M. Córdova, "Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth"
    English | ISBN: 1477314121 | 2017 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB

    As Puerto Rico rapidly industrialized from the late 1940s until the 1970s, the social, political, and economic landscape changed profoundly. In the realm of heath care, the development of medical education, new medical technologies, and a new faith in science radically redefined childbirth and its practice. What had traditionally been a home-based, family-oriented process, assisted by women and midwives and “accomplished” by mothers, became a medicalized, hospital-based procedure, “accomplished” and directed by biomedical, predominantly male, practitioners, and, ultimately reconfigured, after the 1980s, into a technocratic model of childbirth, driven by doctors’ fears of malpractice suits and hospitals’ corporate concerns.
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