Pushing Choice: The Medicalisation of Childbirth

Childbirth is an essential part of reproductive politics which have largely focused on expanding choice for women’s reproductive lives. Childbirth in the west has been medicalised, which means that authoritative knowledge was moved into the hands of the patriarchal medical establishment through disp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Masdottir, Solveig Ros
Other Authors: Eisenberg, Avigail I.
Language:English
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Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5597