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T1 The domestic participation in birth assistance in the mid-twentieth century
A1 Andina Díaz, Elena
A1 Siles González, José
A2 Enfermeria
K1 Enfermería
K1 Midwives
K1 Parturition
K1 History of Nursing
K1 3201.08 Ginecología
AB [EN] Objective: to describe how the progressive creation of the Social Security (providing widespreadhealth care) affected the birth assistance in Spain from the 1940s to the 1970s in a rural area.Method: historical ethnography. Twenty-seven people who lived at that time were selected andinterviewed guided by a semistructured script. Based on their testimonies, a chart was builtwith the functional elements involved in birth assistance in this region. Results: three agentsperformed such care: traditional midwives, women of the family/neighbors and health workers.Conclusion: although birth assistance had been transferred to the hands of the health workersfrom the forties in this region, women in labor continued to count on the domestic resources untilthe early seventies, when births were compulsorily transferred to hospitals. This research bringsto light the names and recognizes the work performed by these female characters of the popularsphere, who helped women in labor of that community to give birth, for at least three decades.
PB Universidad de São Paulo, Escuela de Enfermería de Ribeirão Preto
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18928
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18928
NO Andina Díaz, E.; Siles González, J. (2016). The domestic participation in birth assistance in the mid-twentieth century. Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 24
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 11-jun-2024