Au-delà de la catégorie « césarienne sur demande maternelle ». Cultures médicales et expériences de mères en Suisse romande
In this article, I examine the socio-cultural and biomedical logics underlying maternal requests for caesarean sections, and analyse the multiplicity of women’s motivations. I aim to add complexity to the medical category of “maternal request”, which presupposes an abstract subject with the capacity...
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| description | In this article, I examine the socio-cultural and biomedical logics underlying maternal requests for caesarean sections, and analyse the multiplicity of women’s motivations. I aim to add complexity to the medical category of “maternal request”, which presupposes an abstract subject with the capacity to make autonomous choices regardless of the socio-cultural and technological context. The purpose is to explore how maternal demand for a caesarean section arises within new social and biomedical norms relating to birth, femininity and motherhood. Analysing the accounts of four mothers I met during ethnographic research in French-speaking Switzerland, I examine their personal motivations and how they fit into specific biomedical systems and social and gender norms. I focus on class, level of education and national origin as important factors, both in the relationship with health professionals and in the approach to the female body and childbirth. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4afd6a57afdc4ac9accc59b90d6f02f22025-08-20T02:20:47ZfraAssociation Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la SantéAnthropologie & Santé2111-50282025-04-013010.4000/1411aAu-delà de la catégorie « césarienne sur demande maternelle ». Cultures médicales et expériences de mères en Suisse romandeIrene MaffiIn this article, I examine the socio-cultural and biomedical logics underlying maternal requests for caesarean sections, and analyse the multiplicity of women’s motivations. I aim to add complexity to the medical category of “maternal request”, which presupposes an abstract subject with the capacity to make autonomous choices regardless of the socio-cultural and technological context. The purpose is to explore how maternal demand for a caesarean section arises within new social and biomedical norms relating to birth, femininity and motherhood. Analysing the accounts of four mothers I met during ethnographic research in French-speaking Switzerland, I examine their personal motivations and how they fit into specific biomedical systems and social and gender norms. I focus on class, level of education and national origin as important factors, both in the relationship with health professionals and in the approach to the female body and childbirth.https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/14232Switzerlandbiomedical culturescaesarean on maternal requestindividual choice |
| spellingShingle | Irene Maffi Au-delà de la catégorie « césarienne sur demande maternelle ». Cultures médicales et expériences de mères en Suisse romande Anthropologie & Santé Switzerland biomedical cultures caesarean on maternal request individual choice |
| title | Au-delà de la catégorie « césarienne sur demande maternelle ». Cultures médicales et expériences de mères en Suisse romande |
| title_full | Au-delà de la catégorie « césarienne sur demande maternelle ». Cultures médicales et expériences de mères en Suisse romande |
| title_fullStr | Au-delà de la catégorie « césarienne sur demande maternelle ». Cultures médicales et expériences de mères en Suisse romande |
| title_full_unstemmed | Au-delà de la catégorie « césarienne sur demande maternelle ». Cultures médicales et expériences de mères en Suisse romande |
| title_short | Au-delà de la catégorie « césarienne sur demande maternelle ». Cultures médicales et expériences de mères en Suisse romande |
| title_sort | au dela de la categorie cesarienne sur demande maternelle cultures medicales et experiences de meres en suisse romande |
| topic | Switzerland biomedical cultures caesarean on maternal request individual choice |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/14232 |
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