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0028/2019 - Medicalization of childbirth: The meanings attributed by the literature on childbirth care in Brazil.
Medicalização do parto: Os sentidos atribuídos pela literatura de assistência ao parto no Brasil.

Author:

• Lucia Regina de Azevedo Nicida - Nicida, LRA - <lucia.nicida@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6517-463X

Co-author(s):

• Luiz Antônio da Silva Teixeira - Teixeira, LAS - <luiztei3@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8871-0928
• Andreza Rodrigues Nakano - Nakano, Andreza Rodrigues - <andrezaenfermeira@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1873-5828
• Claudia Bonan Jannotti - Bonan, C. - <cbonan@globo.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8695-6828


Abstract:

This study analyzes the meanings attributed to the concept of medicalization of childbirtha narrative review of literature in national journals published between 2000 and 2017. It is based on the more general conception about medicalization - understood as the process by which medicine broadens and consolidates its area of activity in the various fields of society - and the different formulations of the concept conceived by twentieth-century scholars. Five categories were created that related the medicalization of childbirth with: a) interventions, b) professional dispute, c) violation of the rights of pregnant women, d) the birth scenario, e) reflection of the medicalization of the society. In the first four categories we find a predominance of meanings that explore an interface between medicalization and humanization, constituting as two analytical supercategories, with a predominance of a critique of the medicalized model. Fleeing this analysis model, the category medicalization of childbirth as a reflection of the medicalization of the society focuses around a sense of medicalization of childbirth as part of a broader process involving different actors who would be part of the care process, pointing to a possibility of further analysis in which it considers the complex connection between modern health and society.

Keywords:

Medicalization, Childbirth Care, Women\'s Health

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Nicida, LRA, Teixeira, LAS, Nakano, Andreza Rodrigues, Bonan, C.. Medicalization of childbirth: The meanings attributed by the literature on childbirth care in Brazil.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Feb). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/medicalization-of-childbirth-the-meanings-attributed-by-the-literature-on-childbirth-care-in-brazil/17102?id=17102



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