Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/60777DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2024.2317056
ISSN: 0961-2025
Date
2024-02-13Embargo end date
2025-08-16Funders
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Unión Europea
FEDER
Bibliographic citation
Women's History Review, 2024, v. , n. , p. -
Keywords
Maternity
Childbirth
Hospitals
Spain
20th-21st centuries
Description / Notes
32 p.
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MCI//PID2021-122699OB-I00/ES//
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Abstract
Over the last century, Western countries have undergone a process of medicalisation and hospitalisation of childbirth. This process led to the subordination of midwives to doctors? authority and made the hospital the main focus of childbirth care, which entailed a break with the traditional formula. This article analyses the case of Spain, a country of special interest due to the convergence of three elements: a belated passage of public health insurance, a shortage of beds for maternity care and the context of a dictatorship where a woman?s role was almost exclusively that of wife and mother. Under these circumstances, home childbirth continued well into the 1970s, despite the interests of health policymakers who defended hospital childbirth in a situation of insufficient infrastructures. Hence, when hospital delivery care finally became predominant in Spain, the debate about natural childbirth and a rejection of invasive techniques used in hospitals had already begun in other countries.
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