Monitoring the Medicalization of Women

addresses the ways globalization and the medicalization of birth has legally influenced a woman’s right to “choose” her birthing practices. With the medicalization of birth in recent years, the Western ideology that a hospital birth is safer, and more “modern” has resulted in legal influences on the role of a woman’s “choice” in delivery. Three influences, including patriarchy, globalization and development, are examined to analyze how the medicalization of women’s reproductive processes were originated

addresses the ways globalization and the medicalization of birth has legally influenced a woman’s right to “choose” her birthing practices. With the medicalization of birth in recent years, the Western ideology that a hospital birth is safer, and more “modern” has resulted in legal influences on the role of a woman’s “choice” in delivery. Three influences, including patriarchy, globalization and development, are examined to analyze how the medicalization of women’s reproductive processes were originated

thinking about childbirth. Due to the medicalization of childbirth, risks and fears of health complications can be addressed. However, it has led to women not truly being in control of their labor and delivery experience. Although the medical practice comes in handy when there is an emergency, the medicalization of childbirth has created a social reality that simply state that women are not in control of their own labor and delivery. The outcomes of the medicalization of childbirth have good influences

Medicalization of women through menopause has existed for many years. Men have even produced drugs to treat the side effects of the menopausal ‘condition’ and in doing so have delayed the process that is inevitable. Women are encouraged to use long term treatments in order to replace the hormones that have naturally become deficient. If left untreated there is

during childbirth such as electronic fetal monitoring, amniocentesis, epidurals and C-section is currently the topic of discussion and whether or not these medical interventions actually do disservice to pregnant women and their childbirth experience. It is agreed that in specific emergent situations, these precautionary methods are necessary as they can

done naturally or through it medicalized process. Most women in developing countries of third world countries still carry out birth naturally, when some even bearing children without even going through any medical procedure from pregnancy to birth. Whereas their counterpart in developed nations had to undone all kind of medical attention from pregnancy to birth, and may even given via the medicalized procedure. With it highly medicalization in contemporary in north America, there are opponents of

deals with women’s health. Health care is one of the imperfections here in the United States. Health care in the United States has been in hot topic both in past and recent years. Access and having adequate health care can be a real struggle for women and other social groups in this nation. There are different types of factors in which effect how certain people experience this type of low quality and inadequate health care.

But this was not always the dominant American birth model. Much of feminist history recounts the days (usually portrayed as the good ol' days) when childbirth was considered the province of women as they gave birth at home with the aid and supervision of female relatives, neighbors, or, most often, a midwife. Midwives were not formally trained, but skills were usually passed down from woman to woman through a form of apprenticeship. Their control

woman’s life. A young women 's introduction to menstruation are constructed by both positive and negative perceptions and are then perpetuated by the influences of culture, religion, family members, and the media (Rembeck, Möller & Gunnarsson, 2006; Roberts, 2004). In turn these influences typically create negative attitudes towards menstruation, which affect a woman’s body image leading to self-objectification, and causing disconnection from their mother, themselves, and other women. Most discussion

Introduction Medical and technological advances in maternal and neonatal care have significantly reduced maternal and infant mortality and medical interventions have become commonplace and arguably routine. Used appropriately, they can be lifesaving procedures. Routine use, without valid indication though, can transform childbirth from a natural physiologic process and family event into a medical or surgical procedure. Every intervention presents the possibility of unwanted effects and subsequent