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- Title
High-Fidelity Birth Simulators in American Culture: An Ecofeminist Analysis.
- Authors
Allen Nall, Jeffrey
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of high-fidelity birth simulators, which are used to educate U.S. medical students about childbirth, from the perspective of ecofeminist philosophy. Particular focus is given to the drawbacks of their use, including the simulator's alleged presentation of birth as pathological and of birthing women as passive patients. An overview of the alleged medicalized understanding of labor and delivery in the U.S., including its aspects of masculine cultural control and anthropocentrism, is presented. The author contends that the model of midwife care embodies aspects of ecofeminist epistemology.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILDBIRTH -- Social aspects; ECOFEMINISM; SIMULATED patients; SOCIAL conditions in the United States, 1980-; MOTHERS -- Social aspects; PATHOLOGY; THEORY of knowledge; MEDICAL students; EDUCATION
- Publication
Journal of American Culture, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 1, p52
- ISSN
1542-7331
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1542-734X.2011.00797.x