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Il parto conteso. L’ostetrica tra discorso medico e discorso umanizzante

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Data di Pubblicazione:
2009
Abstract:
This article presents some findings of a study on the profession of midwife and the medicalisation of childbirth conducted in Italy by a team of sociologists and midwives; it was based on in-depth interviews with midwives and mothers and direct observation of childbirths in a National Health Service hospital. We will describe "biomedical discourse" and "humanizing discourse": these represent two different ways of defining and treating pregnancy, labour and childbirth. Biomedical discourse is hegemonic in Italy, while the knowledge of a midwife, central in the humanizing discourse, has a subordinate position. Through ethnographic descriptions of childbirths, we will show how medicalising decisions are taken by obstetricians, mothers-to-be and midwives. A physiological birth is often defined as pathological by the actors, not for "scientific" reasons, but for social and interactional ones, such as organisational and legal factors or working routines.
Tipologia CRIS:
1.1.01 Articoli/Saggi in rivista - Journal Articles/Essays
Elenco autori:
Perrotta, Domenico Claudio
Autori di Ateneo:
PERROTTA Domenico Claudio
Link alla scheda completa:
https://aisberg.unibg.it/handle/10446/23105
Pubblicato in:
ETNOGRAFIA E RICERCA QUALITATIVA
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http://www.mulino.it/edizioni/riviste/issn/1973-3194

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Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi
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