Medicalization discourse and modernity: Contested meanings over childbirth in contemporary Turkey

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-243

  Cindoglu, Dilek ^a   Sayan Cengiz, Feyda ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTHORITY; BEHAVIOR; BIRTH; CESAREAN SECTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSE MIDWIFE; PATERNALISM; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CHANGE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTHORITARIANISM; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSE MIDWIVES; PARTURITION; PATERNALISM; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CHANGE; TURKEY; WESTERN WORLD; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 77949374795     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330903042831     Document Type: Article

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