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Development of midwifery and institutional device: inheritance and social control

Authors

  • Camila Gueneau de Mussy Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Daniela Larraín Birkbeck College University of London
  • Tamara Schliak Universidad Diego Portales
No. 27 (2019): Julio

Abstract

The midwives profession arose as an answer to the national urgency to control the infantile mortality, being established the pregnancy, childbearing and puerperium like processes in which the surveillance and accompaniment acquired different qualities as the scientific knowledge developed, having implications in the historical place that women have had in the assistance of childbirth and in the role of accompaniment towards pregnant women. In the following work we think about this double place of midwives, of surveillance and accompaniment, as an institutional device that marks the relations with the parturients, and opens a space for questioning about the figure of midwives as the main public figure responsible for obstetric violence.

Keywords:

midwives, medical discourse, institutional device, knowledge, power.

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Gueneau de Mussy, C., Larraín, D., & Schliak, T. (2019). Development of midwifery and institutional device: inheritance and social control. Nomadías, (27), 75–94. Retrieved from https://revfono.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/54370
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