SOSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Risk Dominance, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2150
• Professor: Lykke Dela Cour

Document Summary

Transforming health: technological, political, cultural transformations and neoliberalism. Childbirthing (late 19th to early 20th c) technological advances (forceps, anaesthesia and surgery) shift from midwives to doctors shift from home births to hospital setting regulation of women"s bodies and loss of control over birthing process. No doctors, mainly midwives helped with birth in the home. She helped with the birthing process with other female family members, so she had all the control of her birthing experience . Medical science started to colonize the birthing field. Because some mothers or children would die due to complications, they felt the need to start intervening. Doctors wanted to be more relevant to life and tried to infiltrate life processes by expanding the field of medicine. They argued they should be the ones in charge of the child birthing process since they had the medical training and technology. Legislation passed that stated only those with a medical licence could attend the birth.