O corpo feminino e a medicina: a medicalização do parto.

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection on the concept of the feminine body medicalization, focused on the childbirth procedure. This study might provide a better understanding of the symbolic representations of the doctors along the history, as well as the positioning of the parturient facing the procedure and how the feminist movement articulates itself around the medicalization of the female body. The objective of this work was to create a bibliographic revision about the medicalization of the childbirth procedure. The methodology consisted on a non-systematic bibliographic revision research of books and scientific articles.