Přehled o publikaci
2023
Work, marriage and premature birth : the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe
LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina, Natalia JARSKA, Annina GAGYIOVA, Jose Luis Aguilar LOPEZ-BARAJAS, Šárka Caitlín RÁBOVÁ et. al.Basic information
Original name
Work, marriage and premature birth : the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe
Authors
LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina, Natalia JARSKA, Annina GAGYIOVA, Jose Luis Aguilar LOPEZ-BARAJAS and Šárka Caitlín RÁBOVÁ
Edition
Medical History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 0025-7273
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization
Fakulta sociálních studií – Repository – Repository
UT WoS
001086456400001
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85175587412
Keywords in English
medical expertise; medicalisation; childbirth; reproductive health; gender; comparative history
Changed: 26/4/2024 04:07, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík
Abstract
V originále
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.
