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      Medicalization discourse and modernity: contested meanings over childbirth in contemporary Turkey

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      Cindoglu, D.
      Cengiz, F. S.
      Date
      2010
      Source Title
      Health Care for Women International
      Print ISSN
      0739-9332
      Electronic ISSN
      1096-4665
      Publisher
      Taylor & Francis Inc.
      Volume
      31
      Issue
      3
      Pages
      221 - 243
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      In this article, we explore the increasing medicalization of birth and the surge in Caesarean sections in order to examine how this phenomenon relates to the dominant modernization discourse on women's lives in contemporary Turkey. We analyze women's modes of resistance and conformity to medicalization of birth through qualitative data from 15 focus groups of Turkish women as well as from physicians and midwives. We found out that Turkish women generally submit to medicalized birth, despite unpleasent experiences of hospital birth. We argue that the discourse of modernization and traditional patriarchy both play a role in women's submission to medicalization of birth; and we demonstrate the patterns through which these discourses collaborate in establishing the meaning of childbirth in Turkey. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
      Keywords
      Attitude to health
      Authority
      Behavior
      Birth
      Cesarean section
      Cultural anthropology
      Ethnology
      Female
      Health personnel attitude
      Hospitalization
      Information processing
      Legal aspect
      Male
      Medical staff
      Nurse midwife
      Paternalism
      Pregnancy
      Psychological aspect
      Qualitative research
      Social change
      Turkey (republic)
      Women's rights
      Attitude of health personnel
      Attitude to health
      Authoritarianism
      Focus Groups
      Parturition
      Power (Psychology)
      Western World
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/22410
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399330903042831
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