Treatment of women in childbirth: Implications for family beginnings

S. Klein Danziger

American Journal of Public Health, 1979, vol. 69, issue 9, 895-901

Abstract: This paper presents an ethnographic analysis of woman's interaction with staff members during the early stage of labor, focusing on the factors that shape the childbirth experience. The observational data were gathered in several hospitals as part of a study of the medical context of childbearing. The paper presents a model of naturalistic inquiry into the transition to parenthood. Nurses and physicians are found to offer arbitrary, uniform, and often inappropriated responses to birthing women that may inhibit well-being.

Date: 1979
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