Rethinking Reproductive Technologies and Modernities in Time and Space.
Technol Cult
; 61(2): 549-558, 2020.
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| ID: mdl-33416777
ABSTRACT
This overview proposes new ways of interrogating assumptions about globally circulating reproductive technologies and modernities. Comparing and contrasting East Asian experiences of childbirth medicalization provides an alternative to Western-centric discourses and models that tend to focus on notions of individual choice. This special section draws on Chinese and Japanese materials from the twentieth century forward to document how the medicalization of childbirth and use of technology alongside shifting moral ideals and public health policies work to co-produce globalized frameworks of distinctly East Asian modernities. We situate women's birthing experiences in the context of larger reproductive assemblages and hierarchies to highlight the flexible, variable, and contingent spatial and temporal moral tensions and social inequalities shaping ongoing processes of childbirth medicalization and modernization.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Parto Obstétrico
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Parto
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article