SYO 4400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Assisted Reproductive Technology, Pubic Hair, Childbirth
29 Aug 2016
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Regulation and control of women"s lives in the context of reproduction and reproductive technology. Forced sterilization 60,000 people sterilized in the us: rid country of feeble minded, degenerates, shiftless, and alcoholics. First era in which medical dominance really showed decisions were based on moral reasons not scientific reasons. ***behaviors or conditions are given medical meanings and medical practice becomes the vehicle for their elimination or control: natural experiences are turned into medical ones. Medical knowledge used as a form of power: based on moral judgments instead of scientific evidence. Childbirth officially transformed from human experience to a medical technical problem. Doctors were male, white, middle class, had social/class dominance over females. Women were passive objects that knew nothing about their pregnancy compared to the doctors. Demeaning practices shaving pubic hair or doing enemas. Making women vulnerable by taking them out of their own environment.
