The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic

Hřešanová, Ema

doi:10.2307/j.ctt2005wgn.14

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“…Czech policy debate on birth care has been influenced by technocratic hegemony (Sommer, 2016), which has pitted individual requirements in care against what is considered good care (see also Dudová, 2012) and which is generally characteristic of post-communist debates on care (see Fábián and Korolczuk, 2017). Individual requirements are typically downplayed in the debate due to the absence both of a radical midwifery movement (Hrešanová, 2017) and of a managerialist healthcare approach, which would tailor care to personal needs (which differs from Anglo-Saxon care concepts as discussed, for example in Stenner and Taylor, 2008: 418). Most importantly, birthing is not permitted outside of maternity hospitals, which have no midwife-led units.…”

Section: Professional Discourses On Birth Care In Czechiamentioning

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“…The interpretive analysis (see Schwartz-Shea and Yanow, 2013) of professional discourses in the Czech debate on birth care examines press releases, strategy papers, and official documents of professional organizations, public administration bodies, and nonprofit organizations up to 2019. The analysis neither attempts to provide an extensive view of the case (for the Czech context see Hrešanová, 2017;Šmídová et al, 2015) nor evaluates the professional conflict between midwives and obstetricians by measuring their respective policy impacts of the actors involved in the debate. Rather, the diametrically opposed uses of emotional experience in professional discourses are analysed, raising the question about the role of emotions in social policies and even beyond.…”

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Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care

Durnová

Formánková

Hejzlarová

2021

Critical Social Policy

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While the focus on emotions has been associated with the rise of psychosocial welfare and has promised a gateway to accommodate individually diversified needs of citizens in policies, the article shows that the role of emotions needs to be better understood. Highlighting emotions can serve both to empower and to patronize those who experience them. Referring to emotions can thus strengthen hierarchies and downplay individual requests to initiate a change. The analysis of professional discourses on birth care in Czechia shows the value of contextualising emotions. While midwifery discourses apply the emotional context of birth to support women in their specific birth choices, medical discourses use the emotional context to patronize them and to limit their requirements. As a result, policy demands are seen as illegitimate when coming from midwives, who want to see women’s choices more respected in care. We analyse this dynamic through intimacy. As a conceptual framework used in sociology of care, ‘intimacy’ ties individual emotional experiences to collective discourses on care, the body and related feelings. Viewing professional discourses on birth care through intimacy reveals the role of emotions in the collective recognition of the personal struggle for the right to give birth in conditions that respect bodily and emotional integrity, which informs how we think of the role of emotions in policies in general.

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Section: Professional Discourses On Birth Care In Czechiamentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care

Durnová

Formánková

Hejzlarová

2021

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“…Pozice uživatelů je však také určována širším kontextem. Jednak jsou dis kuse o české reformě poměrně konsensuální, tedy nemají onen revoluční a ostře kritický nádech, který jsme mohli pozorovat u zahraničních antipsychiatrických hnutí [Brown 1981] nebo v případě českých hnutí za přirozené porody [Hrešanová 2017] či debaty o očkování [Marhánková 2014]. Česká reforma je založena na pře jímání zahraničních přístupů a cílí na již ověřená a v minulosti vybojovaná řešení.…”

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“…V oblasti zdravotní péče příklad takového aktivismu představuje hnutí za přirozené po rody[Hrešanová 2017] či angažovanost ve vztahu k očkování [např Marhánková 2014]…”

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Experience, Expertise, and Users' Participation: The Case of the Czech Mental Health Care Reform

Honová¹,

Numerato²,

Kondrátová³

2019

Czech Sociological Review

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This paper focuses on users' involvement in the reform of mental health care in the Czech Republic, which, like in other countries, is connected with the destigmatisation of mental illness and the deinstitutionalisation of care. As part of the reform process, users' and caregivers' representatives were invited by the key stakeholders to participate in working groups, expert committees, and government bodies that associate users' and representatives of parents. At the same time, users and caregivers mobilised from below and participated in a number of bottomup initiatives. Against this backdrop, this study set out to identify the main positions of patients and caregivers in the Czech process of reforming mentalhealth care. Moreover, the role of the dif ferent forms of knowledge that inspire civic engagement are examined. The study is based on an analysis of semistructured interviews, primary and secondary sources, and field observations. First, the following four positions taken by users as part of their involvement in the reform of mentalhealth care are identified: guardians, negotiators, awakeners, and fighters. Second, this study discusses the complexity of relations between users' participation and knowledge, showing that the key source of users' involvement is personal experience, which is difficult to separate from expert knowledge. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the complexity of relations between expertise and experience for users' involvement.

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“…Consequently, homebirths that end up in hospital are almost doomed to become traumatic experiences for the birthing mothers. 16 Scholars conducting research in other European countries such as the Czech Republic (Hrešanová 2017), where the government does not approve of or endorse homebirth, have observed similar scenarios and found that when complications arise and homebirthers end up in hospital, they are received with criticism and hostility.…”

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Quando um parto em casa “corre mal”: mães holísticas que acabam por dar à luz num hospital português

Fedele¹

2018

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Research for this article was funded by FCT/MEC, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, as part of the strategic plan (UID/ANT/04038/2013) of the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and as part of my activities as a postdoctoral researcher (SFRH/BPD/47864/2008) and [continues] domiciliar mas acabam por dar à luz num hospital. Criticadas pelo pessoal médico, pelos meios de comunicação e pelo ambiente social, estas mães holísticas vivem sentimentos de culpa e/ou sentem-se inadequadas porque não foram capazes de dar à luz em casa.

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The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic

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Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care

Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care

Experience, Expertise, and Users' Participation: The Case of the Czech Mental Health Care Reform

Quando um parto em casa “corre mal”: mães holísticas que acabam por dar à luz num hospital português

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