ISSN:
0145-9740
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Medical anthropology : cross-cultural studies in health and illness
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 35, No. 1 (2016), p. 17
DDC:
570
Abstract:
Active management of labor (AML) is an obstetric technology developed in Ireland in the 1970s to accelerate labor in nulliparous women. This technology achieved rapid success in Great Britain and in English-speaking countries outside America, which adopted it before many other states around the world. In this article, I explore AML's technical and social characteristics when it was first designed, and then examine its local inflections in a Jordanian and a Swiss maternity hospital to shed light on the ways its transnational circulation modifies its script. I argue that its application is shaped by local material constraints and specific sociocultural configurations, gender regimes, and hospital cultures. Finally, I make a comparative analysis of AML practices in these two settings and in the foundational textbook to disentangle the technical and sociocultural components modeling its local applications.
Note:
Copyright: © 2016 Taylor & Francis 2016
DOI:
10.1080/01459740.2015.1091817
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01459740.2015.1091817
URL:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26484745
