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[Obstetric interventionism and maternalization ofwomen in childbirth care in Uruguay, 1920-1940]
1Profesora adjunta, Departamento de Trabajo Social/Facultad de Ciencias Sociales/Universidad de la República. Montevideo - Uruguay natalia.magnone@cienciassociales.edu.uy.
Abstract:
This article analyzes the speeches of leading doctors in the creation of the specialty in childbirth care: gynecotology. Between 1920 and 1940, under the influence of eugenic and maternalist thinking, in a context of valuing the well-being of children, medicine built a new obstetric interventionism under the foundation of improving fetal viability. The supposed female "maternal instinct" was, thus, appealed to improve acceptance of the medical mandate. At the same time, doctors recognized their difficulties in providing adequate care. They did not wait long enough and tended to intervene in unnecessary physiological processes.
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