Cultivating the ideal obstetrical patient: How physicians-in-training describe pain associated with childbirth

Camille Kroll, Julia Murphy, Lindsay Poston, Whitney You and Ashish Premkumar

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 312, issue C

Abstract: We explore the work labor pain does in cultivating obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) resident physicians’ conceptualization of the “ideal” obstetrical patient – replete with moral, pharmacological, classed, and racialized dimensions. Our data is derived from a single-site, qualitative study conducted at an urban academic OB/GYN residency program in the midwestern U.S. between 2018 and 2019. 36 residents, 9 from each post-graduate year, were randomly selected to complete a semi-structured interview on their perceptions of patient pain surrounding OB/GYN procedures.

Keywords: Anthropology; Medical; Parturition/ethnology; Pregnancy; Racism/ethnology; Women's health; United States; Obstetric violence; Obstetric racism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115365

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