U.S. Rate of Cesarean Surgery: Medicalization of Childbirth as a Discursive Formation through the Frameworks of Intersectionality and Reproductive Justice

Abstract

Section I: Reproductive Justice as Birth Justice and the Abandonment of Evidence-Based Medicine Ia. Birth Advocacy and Cesarean Surgery Ib. Abandonment of Evidence-Based Medicine Section II: Defensive Medicine IIa. Insurance-Driven Birth Work IIb. The Midwifery Model of Care and The Medicalized Model of Care: Narratives of Differentiation