Medicalisation and Cesarean Section Delivery
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چکیده
This chapter discusses elaborately the current discourse on medicalisation in society. The debate on medicalisation of human health by medical sociologists has been discussed to understand the different issues regarding use of medical technology and human health. The medicalisation of human body in general has received lot of attention both theoretically and empirically in the last few decades. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the important aspects of this debate before specifically focusing on the caesarean section deliveries. The objective, therefore, is to understand the concept of medicalisation within the context of caesarean section delivery. The first section of the chapter deals with the concept of medicalisation and the next section deals with the debate over medicalisation based on different views from medical sociologists and feminists.
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