HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Davis Floyd, Intravenous Therapy, Umbilical Cord
15 Dec 2013
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The way society treats pregnancy and childbirth reveals a great deal about the way society treats women. Major life transitions are ritualized childbirth is a major life transition. This occurs in a social cultural context. Societies deepest beliefs centre on science, technology, patriarchy and the institutions that control and disseminate them. Sexist gender lens as western women told in visible and invisible ways their bodies are defective machines. Told they are incapable of of giving birth without the assistance of these other male created other machines. The ritual is a patterned, repetitive and symbolic enactment of a cultural belief or value the intension is to align the belief system of the individual with that of society. Rituals transform societies perception of individuals and individuals perceptions of themselves. Transition, they are neither one thing or another, 3. Integration, absorbed into new social state (know each stage and what it means)
