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“Exame bento” ou “foto do bebê”? Biomedicalização e estratificação nos usos do ultrassom obstétrico no Rio de Janeiro

2016; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0104-59702016000100005

1678-4758

Lilian Krakowski Chazan, Livi Faro,

Race, Genetics, and Society

Based on ethnographic studies conducted at public and private healthcare facilities in Rio de Janeiro, we argue that the dissemination of (bio)medicalization varies in accordance with the social stratum of the expectant mothers, thereby producing thoroughly distinct fetal and pregnant bodies, as well as different gestational processes. Starting from the basic premise that biomedicalization represents a transformation in the process of medicalization, characterized by the growing incorporation of technoscience into biomedicine, the observed universes displayed different stages in this transformation, consonant with the social stratification of the women who underwent the scans.