Medicalization Of Childbirth

Usually, medicalization could be defined as taking a natural process and turning them course into a medical process. An example of this is pregnancy; medicalization “involves interpreting pregnancy itself as a disruption to health that necessarily requires expert medical intervention,” (Mullin, 54). Commonly, women are taught pregnancy is considered to be high risk that needs attention from a medical professional. Back then, women would have birth at any given location and presently, a set plan has to be made of where and how the birth is going to take place.
Kukla and Wayne are concerned that the medicalization of childbirth is often seen to push women into a passive role and have the process be very stressful as well as burdening for the