Managing Labor and Delivery among Impoverished Populations in Mexico: Cervical Examinations as Bureaucratic Practice

摘要: Birthing experiences for low-income and marginalized women have frequently been framed within explanatory models of authoritative knowledge power dynamics. Many these pointed out the structural violence inherent in biomedical model birth. The research on which this article is based suggests that clinicians’ stressful work environment class-based stereotypes resulted routinizing inhumane medical practices. Hospital overcrowding due to health reforms led clinicians being primarily concerned with moving patients swiftly through system. Clinicians increasingly relied cervical examination as a marker labor's progress shorthand method track dilation. Using ethnographic data collected obstetrics ward public hospital Mexico, I explore emergence bureaucratic obstetricians’ everyday practice. provide new understanding encoding entrenching practices their effect reproductive rights women.