In Chile, the hegemonic model of birth can be described as technocratic and highly interventionist, with one of the highest rates of caesarean section in the world. Many procedures that scientific evidence has discredited for decades are practiced routinely, and a vision of women as a defective machine which must be constantly controlled and monitored by the intensive use of technology to ensure the quality of the product-baby prevails. The text presents data on medical interventions during childbirth in the country, and discusses dimensions of medical education that perpetuate a health care model centered in pathology and some elements that shape a scenario of obstetric violence.
Sadler Spencer, M. (2016). Ethnographies of Birth Control in Contemporary Chile. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (33). Retrieved from https://resonancias.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/43388
