1. The Medicalization of Childbirth
... dominant group (Medicine) exerted exclusionary and demarcatory strategies over the subordinate group (Midwives) through the downward exercise of power by excluding women from medical training institutions and limiting midwives to normal births – defining their sphere of practice and competence. Even with the advance in medical technology and the putting down of the midwives credibility, many women still called upon ... necessary (Cahill 2001). As Dr. Joseph DeLee described it, childbirth was presented as "a pathological process from which only a small minority of women escapes damage"...
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