OBSTETRIC VIOLENCE: PAINFUL EXPERIENCES AMONG BRAZILIAN LABORING WOMEN

Authors

  • Luciana Pereira Barboza Universidade Fderal do Recôncavo da Bahia
  • Alessivânia Mota

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17267/2317-3394rpds.v5i1.847

Keywords:

Violence, Parturition, Humanizing delivery

Abstract

This text aimed to do a literature review on obstetric violence practices occurred in hospitals during childbirth and its implications on subjective well-being of women and social relations that set up these practices. A research for articles related to the topic was made on the electronic databases Lilacs and Scielo, which were grouped into three main themes. In the first part of the text we analyzed the historical and social basis related to the development of this violence, highlighting the relationships of power and domination frommedicine and male chauvinism in the elaboration of these care practices. The medicine, through the pathologization of birth and its consequent medicalization takes control of this process and objectifies the women, who lose autonomy over their bodies and suffer physical, psychological and sexual abuse in maternity hospitals. Then, instead of health care and mental care relations, the ones built are those of oppression inside these institutions. In the second part of this work we aimed to identify and describe how these different forms of violence are reiterated in the routine of health services and naturalized in assistance flows. Several women who experienced these aggressions and sufferings originated by these practices were heard through interview. The third part of this text addressed the birth humanization policies that are being encouraged by the Brazilian Ministry of Health since 2000 with the National Policy for Humanized Childbirth.

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Author Biographies

  • Luciana Pereira Barboza, Universidade Fderal do Recôncavo da Bahia
    Médica de Família e Comunidade, especialização em andamento em Saúde Mental pela Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública.
  • Alessivânia Mota
    Graduação em Serviço Social - Universidade Católica do Salvador. Mestre em Psicologia Social e do Trabalho - UFBA. Especialista em Saúde Coletiva - Instituto de Saúde Coletiva/UFBA. Clínica das Toxicomanias - CETAD/UFBA e Grupos Operativos - Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Grupais Enrique Pichon Riviére. Professora da Faculdade Regional da Bahia - UNIRB. Professora do Curso de Pós Graduação em Psicologia Social de Fundamentação Pichoniana - Grupos Operativos e docente convidada dos cursos de Especialização em Enfermagem do Trabalho e Saúde Mental na Atenção Básica da Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública.

Published

05/18/2016

Issue

Section

Review Studies

How to Cite

Barboza, L. P., & Mota, A. (2016). OBSTETRIC VIOLENCE: PAINFUL EXPERIENCES AMONG BRAZILIAN LABORING WOMEN. Revista Psicologia, Diversidade E Saúde, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.17267/2317-3394rpds.v5i1.847