Stephenson P A, Wagner M G
J Public Health Policy. 1993 Summer;14(2):174-82.
Recently, there have been many challenges to women's reproductive rights and freedoms: court-ordered cesarean sections; criminal cases against women for prenatal child abuse; and attempts to limit the practice of mid-wifery, home birth, and the operation of alternative birth centers. In these cases, medicine has been complicit or proactive in attempts to control the behavior or health care options of pregnant women. We discuss medicine's role as an agent of social control, the medical reconstruction of problems that are social in nature, and the need for a more coherent policy framework to guide physician practices.
最近，女性的生殖权利和自由面临诸多挑战：法庭强制要求的剖宫产；针对女性产前虐待胎儿的刑事案件；以及试图限制助产士执业、家庭分娩和替代分娩中心运营的行为。在这些案例中，医学在试图控制孕妇行为或医疗保健选择方面或是同谋，或是积极推动者。我们将探讨医学作为社会控制力量的角色、对本质上属于社会问题进行的医学重构，以及制定更连贯的政策框架以指导医生执业行为的必要性。
