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Giving birth as a struggle: between bodily experience and medical practice
Globally, the birth giving practice became highly “medicalised.” Czech legislation reinforces this trend on birth giving by restricting the possibility to choose the place of birth. As a result, vast majority of women give birth in the hospital with only estimated 0.5% of birth given outside of the hospital. Nevertheless a heated discussion about the freedom of choice on the birth giving practice takes place between the Czech midwifes and obstetricians. Paternalistic heal…
