Anthropology 3332F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beginning Of Human Personhood, Lithotomy Position, Technocracy

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 3332F/G
• Professor: Andrew Walsh

Document Summary

Can social birth come before biological birth ? all humans regardless of sociocultural context. Research on giving birth in american hospitals since the 1980s. gender in our society and transforms the individuals perception of herself. Consider ultrasound, a diagnostic tool commonly used on pregnant women. Birth and birthing, whether it be social or biological, are always understood and experienced in ways that relate to the wider sociocultural contexts in which they occur. Ultrasound clearly affects mothers" own understandings of their embodied experience of pregnancy and its risks, but it also enables new imaginings of fetal personhood . Surely biological birth that is, the moments around a baby"s emergence from the mother is first and foremost a natural and biological process, and so is common to. Describes hospital birth as a rite of passage that reinforces common ideas about. Critical of the technocratic model of medicine, and of how it plays out in women"s.