Circulation and Exportation of the Japanese Childbirth Model in Southern-East Asia Preliminary Insights from Cambodia
Clémence Schantz,
Pascale Hancart Petitet
Abstract:Globally, maternal health matters and birthing ideologies and practices still generate much controversy. On the one hand, those who are promoting the medicalization of childbirth argue that the mortality and morbidity risks justify the imposition of biotechnological standards and practices. On the other hand, activists for demedicalization of birth are denouncing gynecological and obstetric violence, and pointing the pathologies induced by overuse of technologies. These movements, which are part of th… Show more
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