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....

Objective: To identify predictors of cesarean section in a term nulliparous women presented in labour. So that we can avoid unnecessary primary cesarean section and in the same time avoid, as much as we can, obstructed labour. Methods: This was a cohort study of 216 nulliparous patients presenting in labour at term with singleton vertex fetuses who were followed till delivery either vaginally (...

BACKGROUND Rates of cesarean section increase worldwide, and the components of this increase are partially unknown. A strong role is prescribed to dystocia, and at the same time, the diagnosis of dystocia is highly subjective. Previous studies indicated that risk of cesarean is higher when women are admitted to the hospital early in the labor. METHODS We examined data on 1,202 nulliparous wom...

In 2004 Mark Landon and his colleagues in the United States published ?Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated with a Trial of Labor after Prior Cesarean Delivery,? which compared the risks of vaginal delivery and cesarean section for delivery of a fetus [2] after a previous cesarean delivery. During a cesarean section, a physician surgically removes a fetus [2] from a pregnant woman through...

OBJECTIVES To determine the net health consequences, costs, and cost-effectiveness of alternative delivery strategies for HIV-infected pregnant women with detectable HIV RNA in the USA. DESIGN Cost-effectiveness analysis using a probabilistic decision model. METHODS The model compared two strategies: elective Cesarean section and vaginal delivery. Data for HIV transmission rate, maternal de...

Data concerning frequency of cesarean section as well as frequency of vaginal delivery after cesarean section in Poznań region in years 1990-1991 were presented. During last years we observed significant increase of spontaneous deliveries after cesarean section. The indications for the previous cesarean section and the outcome of the present pregnancy are discussed.