A ship upon a stormy sea: The medicalization of pregnancy

作者: K.K Barker

DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00155-5

关键词: Prenatal carePublic healthPregnancyEthnic groupRhetoricGender studiesSociologyCornerstoneInterpretation (philosophy)Medicalization

摘要: This is an empirical illustration of the role of biomedical rhetoric in the rise of medicine's cultural authority. Using the case of pregnancy in the United States I delineate how …

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