HLTHAGE 1AA3 Chapter Notes -Umbilical Cord, Rites, Cognitive Restructuring
Document Summary
Although we have a wide range of technology that has helped shift the way medical procedures and the way babies are delivered - childbirth is still a gendered phenomenon. It is said that the way society treats pregnancy and childbirth it reveals a great deal about the way society treats their women. In the u. s childbirth is heavily guided by the use of technology and drugs to relieve pain and help speed up the process. Many americans including the doctors and nurses themselves view these procedures as medical necessities. An example of this is the mayan indians of highland chiapas - where the women would have to. Grab hold on to a rope while squatting - which is a better position than the on your back type of births. But this view of natural, cultural and religious beliefs to childbirth has become invisible.