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Risk, Pregnancy and Childbirth (Paperback)
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Risk, Pregnancy and Childbirth (Paperback)
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Over the last hundred years, pregnancy and childbirth has become
increasingly safe - yet it is still a site of risk, and a contested
ground on which health professionals and pregnant women both face
high costs of error. In this context, all those involved in
managing pregnancy and birth are expected to identify and mitigate
risk: pregnant women are subject to increasing surveillance to
ensure the safety of the unborn foetus, and every aspect of
childbearing is increasingly medicalised. This publication brings
together fascinating social science research to explore the ways in
which risk is both created and managed in pregnancy and childbirth.
The introductory chapters reflect on the changing social context of
childbirth, in particular the medicalisation of both pregnancy and
childbirth with development of specialist practitioners, such as
obstetricians and midwives who claim to have the knowledge,
technology and skills to identify and manage the risks involved.
The next three chapters that examine the ways in which women's
behaviour during pregnancy is constructed as potentially risky --
for example smoking, drinking alcohol and taking drugs, and how
these risks are monitored and mitigated. The final two parts of the
book address the construction of and responses to both
medicalisation and risk in childbirth. Altogether, it represents a
valuable insight into the complex world of pregnancy, childbirth
and risk. This book brings together editorials and articles
originally published in special and open issues of Health, Risk and
Society.
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