Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Blogs como canais alternativos de comunicação para o renascimento do parto

“…Behind the childbirth humanization blogosphere are women who articulate themselves, driven by vexation and dissatisfaction with the institutionalization of the female body and obstetric violence, with the aim of showing and consolidating new alternatives to the current technocratic model of obstetric attention (DAVIS-FLOYD, 1992, 2001), such as normal humanized childbirth, with the fewest interventions possible, and planned home birth.…”

Atraso no diagnóstico da tuberculose em sistema prisional: a experiência do doente apenado

“…This meaning is related to the prevailing technocratic paradigm in the field of health sciences, according to which interventions with an emphasis on short-term results are privileged and describe a powerful motivational force, called the "technocratic imperative". 21 The statement [...] if we do not know the diagnosis of the disease we are not going to manage provides a sense of overlapping of the medical knowledge, embodied in the diagnostic clarification, with the popular wisdom. The effects of meaning arising from the biomedical discourse center the medical action on the disease diagnosis, hyper-atrophying the diagnosis and generating processes of erasure and deindividuation of the patient subjects, increasingly seen as homogeneous units.…”

“…Yeah As a discursive event, the search for medical care motivated by the perception of a serious clinical state can be grounded in discursive formations updated in the incorporation of the technocratic model, which gives prominence to curative medicine. 21 The meanings present there would be colonized by an eminently economistic logic, expressed in the high consumption of machinery, equipment and instruments, used as the main resources of diagnosis and therapy. 23 Producing landslides of meanings from the "obvious" idea that the diagnosis of TB in prisons is easier, because all the prisoners are within easy "reach" of the health interventions, comprehends that there are multiple obstacles for the detection of cases of the disease in the prison system.…”

“We Wanted a Birth Experience, not a Medical Experience”: Exploring Canadian Women's Use of Midwifery

“…Woliver noted, "Shifting control from the pregnant woman to doctors and other medical professionals brings with it increased power of 'experts' at the expense of women" (p. 30). Davis-Floyd (1992) also noted the impact of medicalization in North America where biomedical and technological knowledge is privileged, thus allowing physicians to play a key role as the medical authority of women's experiences of pregnancy. In her study of the history of medical treatment of pregnant women, Oakley (1984) found pregnant women were seen as deficient in that they lacked the proper education, responsibility, and intelligence necessary to take an active role in the management of their pregnancies.…”