ANTHRCUL 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Obstetrics, Natural Childbirth, Health Care
1 Nov 2018
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Case study: childbirth in the netherlands (methods and concepts) Lecture 20 notes: pain, netherlands/india, fear, botswana/brazil, risk, vbac/ep/wb, balance of maternity care professions, christiaens, nieuwenhuijze & de vries, 2013: "unity as one midwifery profession, including community and hospital-based" "continuity of midwifery care to women at home or when referred to the hospital: verloskundige: trained, independently-operating midwife. "those who support a return to normalcy in birth need the netherlands" (de vries) Impatient, interventive obstetrics harms women babies and the economy. In the us, 31. 9% of babies born surgically. Interventions are costly: highly technological capabilities, low intervention birth culture ----> understanding women choices re: technocratic and natural childbirth options. Structural aspects of childbirth in the netherlands: legal aspects of home deliveries, relationship of ob-gyns and midwives, training of ob-gyn and midwives, heath care and insurance system. "physiological" vs "pathological" birth: explanation of the codes used for care providers:
