The Global Epidemic of Cesarean Surgery and the Feminist Movement :: Essays Papers

The Global Epidemic of cesarean Surgery and the Feminist action Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland writes in a 2002 paper she presented to the XVIII European Congress of perinatal Medicine, There is an ongoing epidemic of cesarean sections in Asia and Latin America. This oecumenical fad of obstetrical interventions may have a serious electronegative health impact on women. In contrast, the low rates find in Africa reflect a lack of resources more than a consensus of providers. The moneymaking(prenominal) and litigation pressures that drive this epidemic need to be countered. Her medical illustration notwithstanding, this is a serious wake-up call for women to be asking the question, What is going on that this phenomenon of major surgery on women is happening on such a wide scale? We are here faced with the polar foeman extremes in birthing. Seemingly, if a woman has too little prenatal maintenance and education regarding birthing (as in Africa) she may not have t he opening to a Cesarean when she truly needs it and at the other ending of the spectrum if a woman has enveloped herself in a system that relies too intemperately on birthing technologies she may end up with an unnecessary Cesarean surgery. Other paradigms exist for birthing such as in Holland where both woman is provided with a midwife for her birth, and Brazil where the C-section rate transcend 80 percent. Yet another microcosmic pocket of birth in the U.S. shows us that C-section rates can be achieved at down the stairs 2%. Such are the ranges of Cesarean birthing experiences and corresponding womens movements that will be explored alongside the politics of birth in this Birthquake seek project.Literary Review In doing this project the literature drawn from is for the most donation non-scholarly for the reason that I am prevailing upon the reader to think removed the box about birth. Most of the scholarly research that is available was indite by doctors or nurses/nurse midwives who were trained in the medical framework of birth. Since part of my premise is that the high rate of Cesarean sections is caused in part by viewing birth as a medical and accordingly pathological event, and in part for its emergence as a bourgeois industry, it was then necessary to find literature written by tribe who have expertise in birthing though not from the traditionalistic obstetrical/medical school approach.