Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime
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Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regimeData
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Vilar Rodríguez, M., Ruiz-Berdún, D. & Pons Pons, J. (2024). Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regiWomen's History Review, 1-22. doi:10.1080/09612025.2024.2317056
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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 despite 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.
Palabras chave
Maternity
Childbirth
Hospitals
Spain
20th-21st centuries
Childbirth
Hospitals
Spain
20th-21st centuries
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