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@article{60906,
author = {Lišková, Kateřina and Jarska, Natalia and Gagyiova, Annina and LopezandBarajas, Jose Luis Aguilar and Rábová, Šárka Caitlín},
article_location = {Cambridge},
article_number = {4},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2023.28},
keywords = {medical expertise; medicalisation; childbirth; reproductive health; gender; comparative history},
language = {eng},
issn = {0025-7273},
journal = {Medical History},
title = {Work, marriage and premature birth : the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/work-marriage-and-premature-birth-the-sociomedicalisation-of-pregnancy-in-state-socialist-eastcentral-europe/4DA858B19C84F70411A09F84D211FCE5},
volume = {67},
year = {2023}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 60906
AU - Lišková, Kateřina - Jarska, Natalia - Gagyiova, Annina - Lopez-Barajas, Jose Luis Aguilar - Rábová, Šárka Caitlín
PY - 2023
TI - Work, marriage and premature birth : the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe
JF - Medical History
VL - 67
IS - 4
SP - 285-306
EP - 285-306
PB - Cambridge University Press
SN - 0025-7273
KW - medical expertise
KW - medicalisation
KW - childbirth
KW - reproductive health
KW - gender
KW - comparative history
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/work-marriage-and-premature-birth-the-sociomedicalisation-of-pregnancy-in-state-socialist-eastcentral-europe/4DA858B19C84F70411A09F84D211FCE5
N2 - Reproductive health in state socialism is usually viewed as an area in which the broader contexts of women's lives were disregarded. Focusing on expert efforts to reduce premature births, we show that the social aspects of women's lives received the most attention. In contrast to typical descriptions emphasising technological medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation, we show that expertise in early socialism was concerned with socio-medical causes of prematurity, particularly work and marriage. The interest in physical work in the 1950s evolved towards a focus on psychological factors in the 1960s and on broader socio-economic conditions in the 1970s. Experts highlighted marital happiness as conducive to healthy birth and considered unwed women more prone to prematurity. By the 1980s, social factors had faded from interest in favour of a bio-medicalised view. Our findings are based on a rigorous comparative analysis of medical journals from Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.
ER -
LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina, Natalia JARSKA, Annina GAGYIOVA, Jose Luis Aguilar LOPEZ-BARAJAS and Šárka Caitlín RÁBOVÁ. Work, marriage and premature birth : the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe. \textit{Medical History}. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, vol.~67, No~4, p.~285-306. ISSN~0025-7273. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2023.28.
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