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| 3. Davis-Floyd argues that US hospital births as rituals use symbols of medicine and professional expertise to express the idea that the body of the mother is only valuable as a source of life for the baby. Many of the people she interviewed describe how the hospital equipment and routines seemed to detach women from their own bodies and from the experience of birth itself. One woman even described how doctors and nurses focused on the monitors to which she was connected, as if the machine was giving birth and not her (Davis-Floyd 1994, 333). | 3. Davis-Floyd argues that US hospital births as rituals use symbols of medicine and professional expertise to express the idea that the body of the mother is only valuable as a source of life for the baby. Many of the people she interviewed describe how the hospital equipment and routines seemed to detach women from their own bodies and from the experience of birth itself. One woman even described how doctors and nurses focused on the monitors to which she was connected, as if the machine was giving birth and not her (Davis-Floyd 1994, 333). | ||
| - | 4. In her study of hospital births in the US, Davis-Floyd notes that many of medical routines of delivery are based on the metaphor of the woman' | + | 4. In her study of hospital births in the US, Davis-Floyd notes that many of medical routines of delivery are based on the metaphor of the woman' |
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