Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:1499

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1499

Authors:
Blázquez Rodríguez, Maria Isabel

Abstract:
In Madrid the health care attention to pregnancy, partum and postpartum is organised by biomedicine, care system and model has been studied by medical anthropology. Pregnant women turn to health system and begin a medical care itinerary. This itinerary consists of a series of visits and tests, continues with the hospitalized partum, and after child's birth, with the postpartum that entails some days in the same hospital and ends with visits to the public health centre for both the women and the creature.The main aim is to analyse gender ideologies and practices inside health care attention of pregnancy, partum and postpartum. To do so, this research first examines how the health care attention works and what role does it gaves to women and men, specifically in the maternity/parternity process. Fieldwork for this research started in 2005 and ended in 2008. It was carried out in a sanitary district in the south of Madrid (Spain) called 'area 12', which has two municipalities: Noceda y Villafranca. All of these names are anonymous.The Thesis shows the elements in which biomedical control is produced in pregnancy, partum and postpartum, as the risk approach and sanitary protocols and procedures that produce medicalisation and productivist logic. We also examine how the professionals and their associations are participating in reproducing and changing care. One of the main transformations we describe consists on what we have named physiological approach that nowadays proposes to attach more importance to women. This approach is included in the Spanish Health and Compsumtion Department that was approved during the fieldwork. Nevertheless, we can find some contradictions implied in the continuity of risk approach and biomedical control as they emphasise the biological, women n