Reproduction - sotsioloogia
between 1739 and 1765 two lying in wards and four lying in hospitals were created.
Provincial hospitals followed in 1800s Hospitals were financed by private capital and,
mostly charitable and received patients from the working classes. In the Americas the
women of colour and immigrants were. For the first time uninhibited access to female body becomes possible.
HOWEVER,
o Medical assistance could not improve midwife assisted mortality record.
o Toxaemias of pregnancy, sepsis and haemorrhage were noT brought under control till 1930s.
o Maternal and infant mortality remained at a constant high from 1835 to 1935
o Post WWII almost 90% births became institutionalised
Take a highly successful `natural
process' (e.g., salmon swimming
upstream to spawn)
PunchOne:renderit
dysfunctional with technology
(dam the stream, preventing
salmon from reaching their
spawning grounds)
Punch Two : fi x i t wi t h
technology (take salmon out of the