Midwives’ professionalization: a comparative approach. An interpretation of the phenomenon of childbirth medicalization
The paper studies the problem of increasing medicalization of pregnancy and delivery, a phenomenon that started in Italy between the 1950s and the 1960s owing to deep political, social and cultural changes. The main aim of the study is the understanding of the origins of the phenomenon by investigat...
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| Language: | English |
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Transilvania University of Brasov Publishing House
2010-11-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law |
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| Online Access: | http://but.unitbv.ro/BU2010/Series%20VII/BULETIN%20VII%20PDF/SOCIAL%20WORK/173%20Spina.pdf |