"The hospital is a uterus" : western discourses of childbirth in late modernity : a case study from northern Italy
The medicalisation of Western childbirth that was initiated in the seventeenth century has resulted in healthier women and infants, but it has also changed the cultural definition of birth as a restricted female experience. There is an increasing insistence among experts to define birth as a heteros...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen
2000
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-69173 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-7265-096-6 |