...This chapter focuses on the so-called technocratic model of birth, a paradigm that provides the rationale for the medical conduct of the rite of passage for the mother. It suggests that this model, with its blanket categorization of the female body as an inherently defective machine, reflects...

... childbirth. It compares the technocratic and the wholistic models of birth and discusses women's views and opinion concerning the wholistic model. Affectivity of dangerous births effect of on obstetricians Belief and value system alignment of with society Mehl Lewis Technocratic model of pregnancy...

... between the technocratic model dominant in the hospital and the belief system she holds when she enters the hospital. This chapter explains that when the belief system is upheld the birth experience will be perceived as positive and joyful but when it is overthrown the experience will be perceived...

...This chapter investigates the cultural consensus on and futuristic significance of the increasing technocratization of childbirth in the U.S. The findings of this study reveal that seventy percent of the births occurred in varying degrees of conceptual harmony with the technocratic model and only...

...This chapter presents a step-by-step demonstration of how obstetrical procedures work to map the technocratic model of birth onto the woman's perceptions of her labor and birth experience. It attempts to decode the message conveyed by hospital birth rituals or the so-called standard procedures...