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Relationship between power and knowledge in choosing a cesarean section: women's perspectives
Ana Paula de Lima Escobal1, Ana Paula Müller de Andrade2, Greice Carvalho de Matos3
1Universidade Federal do Pampa. Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Objectives:
to analyze the reasons and motives that initiates the decision to choose a cesarean section, by describing the plots, power relationships, struggles, and systems of truths regarding this method of childbirth.
Methods:
a qualitative study, inserted into a poststructuralist perspective, and conducted in a city in southern Rio Grande do Sul state. The settings were a teaching hospital and home residences. Thirteen postpartum women who had a cesarean section participated. The analysis consisted of questions based on the information produced and articulated with Foucauldian theories.
Results:
two categories were developed: "I wanted a vaginal delivery, but it was a cesarean section", and, "Are you sure you want a vaginal delivery: paths and detours in the choice of cesarean section".
Final Considerations:
the study allowed us to identify problems in the choice for a cesarean section, which is associated with the circulation of "truths" that occur via discourses on society.
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