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Women and health care professionals: the role of cultural imagination in the humanization of delivery and childbirth

In the search for knowing the impact for women and health professionals of the politics of humanization on childbirth and birth, a qualitative research was carried out, using as a methodological reference the Content Analysis. The data was collected by means of individual interviews. The results, analyzed in the light of Feminist Bioethics, point out that women live the parturition process with the sensation of fear and unfamiliarity; and humanization, at that moment, means to submit to the interventionist actions directed towards them, putting them in a situation of extreme vulnerability. The professionals verbalize the existence of a hierarchization in the relationships, between them and women, that delimits the social space and knowledge. The lack of communication in the care dedicated by them to women was evident. The rescue of feminine autonomy in view of the parturition process and the transformation in the interpersonal and professional relationships are relevant aspects tied to the changes proposed by the Politics of Humanization.

Humanizing delivery; Vulnerability; Parturition


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