Anthropology 3332F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Childbirth, Lithotomy Position, New Class
22 Feb 2021
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The technocratic, humanistic, and holistic paradigms of childbirth davis-floyd. The western hc system embodies the biases/beliefs of the society that created it. Western hc system core values science, technology, $ profit, and patriarchally governed institutions. Routine obstetrical procedures performed because they make cultural, rather than scientific, sense. Separation: things are better understood outside the context of the related person/object to which they originate: technocratic model separates the human body from mind. Factory , the mother"s body is the machine , and the baby is the. Product of an industrial manufacturing process: obstetrics designed for the manipulation/improvement of the inherently defective birthing process & to make birth conform to the assembly-line model of factory production. Hegemony: an ideology espoused by the dominant group in a given society: when an ideology is hegemonic, all other competing ideologies become. Technocratic physicians often express extreme frustration over the patient"s failure to follow doctor"s orders.
