Hope this is of help:
Lupton, D. and J. McLean (1998). "Representing doctors:
Discourses and images in the Australian press."
Social Science
& Medicine 46(8): 947.
Lupton, D. (1998). "Doctors in the News Media: Lay and Medical
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35-48.
Lay, M. M., Gurak, L.J., Gravon, C., Myntii, C., Ed. (2000).
Body
Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction. Wisconsin, University of
Wisconsin Press. There are some good chapters in this.
Take care
Alphia
Each
society has its own consensual understanding of birth & its
determinants: caregivers, location, participants, & loci of decision
making, which in the Western world are based on biomedical knowledge.
However, two competing cultural models of childbirth, the
biomedical/technocratic model & natural/holistic model, mediate
women's choices & preferences for the place & caregiver in
childbirth. This article explores the way in which these cultural models
of birth & the existing practical possibilities for choices shape
women's & men's understanding of home birth. Based on interviews with
21 Finnish women & 12 Finnish men, the reasons for & experiences
of planning & building toward a home birth are examined through an
analysis of birth narratives. The analysis focuses especially on the
women's definitions of what is "natural" & their
relationship with health services where biomedical practices &
knowledge are the norm. The analysis shows that the notion of
"natural birth" holds various meanings in Finnish women's
narratives namely self-determination, control, & trust in one's
intuition. I seek to demonstrate that just as the biomedical management
of childbirth exhibits distinct cross-cultural variation, so also does
resistance to biomedical hegemony, as such resistance is strongly
embedded in the local sociocultural situation. 41 References. Adapted
from the source document.
Reports of
incidents and issues related to members of the medical profession and the
practice of medicine often feature in the western news media. Such
intense coverage has incited the interest of both medical sociologists
and members of the profession themselves. Thus far, however, very
few detailed studies addressing the tenor of news reporting on the
medical profession have been published, particularly in relation to the
Australian media.
At 05:49 PM 4/06/2005, you wrote:
Hi everyone
I am wondering if anyone has any articles or references that could help
with how the media influences women's perceptions of childbirth and
pregnancy?? I am doing a seminar presentation for uni, and have some
articles (10) at this stage, but searching the databases last night did
not prove to be very forthcoming with articles.....
Thanks
Katrina
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