1. The Medicalization of Childbirth
Over the past fifty or so years, childbirth and pregnancy has undergone the process of medicalization, that is the expansion of medical jurisdiction into the realms of the other previously non-medically defined problems, a process which dearly serves the interests of medicine with its increasing focus on the indictors of disease rather than individuals' experience of health and illness (Cahill, 2001:338-339). ... But the questions this medicalization raises are plentiful. ... These questions, among others will be the focus of discussion surrounding the medicalization of childbirth and t...
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