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Obstetric violence in historical perspective

The Lancet (British edition), 2022-06, Vol.399 (10342), p.2183-2185 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2022 Elsevier Ltd ;2022. Elsevier Ltd ;ISSN: 0140-6736 ;EISSN: 1474-547X ;DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01022-4 ;PMID: 35691313

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Title:
Obstetric violence in historical perspective
Author: O’Brien, Elizabeth ; Rich, Miriam
Subjects: 20th century ; Abortion ; Activists ; Aggression ; Autonomy ; Cesarean section ; Childbirth & labor ; Citizenship ; Coercivity ; Delivery, Obstetric ; Female ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Imprisonment ; Labor, Obstetric ; Litigation ; Native women ; Obstetrics ; Oppression ; Pain ; Patients ; Physicians ; Political activism ; Postpartum period ; Pregnancy ; Race ; Sepsis ; Slavery ; Sterilization ; Violence ; Womens health
Is Part Of: The Lancet (British edition), 2022-06, Vol.399 (10342), p.2183-2185
Description: Antebellum physicians in the USA developed new medical procedures by continually experimenting on the bodies of enslaved women—and other individuals marginalised on the basis of race, class, and citizenship status—while denying them the standards of care afforded to other patients. The expansion of obstetrics was marked by discriminatory practices in the assessment and treatment of childbirth pain. 19th-century physicians in multiple regions claimed that middle-class and upper-class white women experienced more pain in childbirth, and they focused their efforts of pain relief on this subset of patients. The 1974 case of Relf v Weinberger exposed the forced sterilisation of low-income African American patients; in the 1978 case of Madrigal v Quilligan, ten Mexican immigrant women brought a class-action lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Hospital for a pattern of coercively sterilising Latina patients. Lack of access to safe abortion results in medical harms, such as increased rates of preventable death from sepsis and haemorrhage, and economic and political harms related to exclusion and loss of autonomy.
Publisher: England: Elsevier Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0140-6736
EISSN: 1474-547X
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01022-4
PMID: 35691313
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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Obstetric violence in historical perspective

2022 Elsevier Ltd ;2022. Elsevier Ltd ;ISSN: 0140-6736 ;EISSN: 1474-547X ;DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01022-4 ;PMID: 35691313

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