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Medicalisation of childbirth

Concerns about the on-going medicalisation of childbirth in the Western world have been at the forefront of professional and wider societal debates since the 1980s. The achievements of modern obstetrics, with their undeniable benefits, have also given rise to new challenges to health care professionals in maintaining normality, preventing unnecessary intervention, and creating the optimal environment for birth. Most births take place in hospitals: large, hierarchical, bureaucratic and impersonal institutions which, it is argued here, through their very nature -- physical setting, architecture, and social milieu -- interfere with the physiology of birth, and are detrimental to provision of truly woman-centred, sensitive and compassionate care. jennydavisproductions.com