The Business of Birth (eBook)

Malpractice and Maternity Care in the United States

Louise Marie Roth (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-0909-7 (ISBN)

Infos

How the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choicesGiving birth is a monumental event, not only in the personal life of the woman giving birth, but as a medical process and procedure. In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth explores the process of giving birth, and the ways in which medicine and law interact to shape maternity care.Focusing on the United States, Roth explores how the law creates an environment where medical providers, malpractice attorneys, and others limit women s rights and choices during birth. She shows how a fear of liability risk often drives the decision-making process of medical providers, who prioritize hospital efficiency over patient safety, to the detriment of mothers themselves.Ultimately, Roth advocates for an approach that protects the reproductive rights of mothers. A comprehensive overview, The Business of Birth provides valuable insight into the impact of the law on mothers, medical providers, maternity care practices, and others in the United States.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 47 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Authoritative knowledge • Birth • Cesarean • Choice • Court-ordered cesareans • Defensive medicine • Disrespectful care/Obstetric violence • Early-term birth • Elective delivery • Electronic fetal monitor • Evidence-based Medicine • feticide • Forced cesareans • healthcare system • induction of labor • institutional culture • Legal endogeneity • legal regimes • liability insurance • malpractice • maternity care • Maternity care field • Medicalization of childbirth • medical malpractice • Medical professional dominance • Midwife-attended birth • Midwifery • Midwifery model • Organizational Efficiency • Out-of-hospital birth • Prenatal substance abuse • reproductive justice • Reproductive regimes • Reproductive rights • Reproductive rights regimes • Risk • Scienciness • standard of care • Technology fetishism • Tort law • Tort reforms • Tort regimes • VBAC • Weekend births
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-0909-8 / 1479809098
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-0909-7 / 9781479809097