Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Rebirth of childbirth: reflections on medicalization of the Brazilian obstetric care
2018; Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem; Volume: 71; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0564
ISSN1984-0446
AutoresSamara Calixto Gomes, Lívia Parente Pinheiro Teodoro, Antônio Germane Alves Pinto, Dayanne Rakelly de Oliveira, Glauberto da Silva Quirino, Ana Karina Bezerra Pinheiro,
Tópico(s)Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
ResumoABSTRACT Objective: to reflect on the medicalization process of childbirth and birth and its consequences based on a Brazilian audiovisual media artifact. Method: reflective and interpretive analysis of the documentary O Renascimento do Parto (The Rebirth of Childbirth) based on Critical Discourse Analysis. Results: c-section emerges as an alternative to adverse conditions of pregnancy. However, it has become a routine and abusive practice of a medicalized obstetric care, thus becoming a social problem. In order to the incidence of c-sections decrease, women's protagonism must be restored, in addition to considering psychological, affective, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and contextual aspects in childbirth. Conclusion: childbirth is established as a material element and a mental phenomenon of social practices. We must interrupt the predominant model, allowing the body to express itself through the release of oxytocin, and decrease the segregation that c-section causes, thus enabling affective bonds.
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