Neither Medicine Nor Health Care Staff Members Are Violent By Nature: Obstetric Violence From an Interactionist Perspective

Qualitative Health Research
Ximena Briceño MoralesCarlos Enrique Yepes Delgado

Abstract

This study sought to understand the meaning that women place on the health care practices carried out during labor. We used techniques from Grounded Theory such as coding, categorization, and constant comparison. A total of 18 interviews were conducted with 16 women who had given birth at least once in Colombia. Based on our results, we argue that obstetric violence is an expression of violence during the provision of health care, which occurs in a social environment favoring the development of power relationships between patients and health care staff. Its origin might lie in a health care system whose political and economic foundations encourage inequality on the basis of the patients' purchasing power. We conclude that rethinking and redefining the concept of obstetric violence is essential for understanding its nature and having an impact on it.

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Oct 24, 2019·Qualitative Health Research·Bregje Christina de KokAnn Phoya
Jul 6, 2019·Birth·Christine H Morton, Penny Simkin
Oct 12, 2018·Reproductive Health·Nicholas RubashkinNadia Diamond-Smith
Jan 31, 2021·Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecología·Libia Amparo Bedoya-RuizSantiago Henao-Villegas
Aug 21, 2021·BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth·Ziba TaghizadehMolouk Jaafarpour
Nov 10, 2021·Violence Against Women·Rachelle Chadwick

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cesarean section

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