Department of Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
Med Anthropol. 2023 Feb 17;42(2):163-176. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2166410. Epub 2023 Jan 24.
Obstetric violence is an emergent paradigm that uses gender-based violence to frame traumatic childbirth. Despite its growing popularity in the literature, it may not adequately address the nuanced ways that all actors experience these interactions. While Costa Rica adopted a nationally endorsed humane birthing policy, the semi-structured interviews on which I draw in this article show that health care personnel continue to dehumanize and objectify women; experiences considered characteristic of obstetric violence. However, women's own interpretations of their experiences are not aligned with definitions of obstetric violence. This lacuna in praxis highlights the need to critically reevaluate how birth trauma is conceptualized within a contemporary context.
产科暴力是一种新兴模式，它利用基于性别的暴力来描述创伤性分娩。尽管它在文献中越来越受欢迎，但它可能无法充分解决所有参与者经历这些互动的细微差别。尽管哥斯达黎加通过了一项得到国家认可的人道分娩政策，但我在本文中所依据的半结构化访谈显示，医疗保健人员继续使妇女失去人性和物化；这些经历被认为是产科暴力的特征。然而，妇女对自己经历的解释与产科暴力的定义并不一致。实践中的这一差距突出表明，需要批判性地重新评估如何在当代背景下概念化分娩创伤。
