Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985963%3A_____%2F23%3A00576460" target="_blank" >RIV/67985963:_____/23:00576460 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14230/23:00133981
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/work-marriage-and-premature-birth-the-sociomedicalisation-of-pregnancy-in-state-socialist-eastcentral-europe/4DA858B19C84F70411A09F84D211FCE5" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/work-marriage-and-premature-birth-the-sociomedicalisation-of-pregnancy-in-state-socialist-eastcentral-europe/4DA858B19C84F70411A09F84D211FCE5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2023.28" target="_blank" >10.1017/mdh.2023.28</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe
Original language description
Reproductive health in state socialism is usually viewed as an area in which the broader contexts of women’s lives were disregarded. Focusing on expert efforts to reduce premature births, we show that the social aspects of women’s lives received the most attention. In contrast to typical descriptions emphasising technological medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation, we show that expertise in early socialism was concerned with socio-medical causes of prematurity, particularly work and marriage. The interest in physical work in the 1950s evolved towards a focus on psychological factors in the 1960s and on broader socio-economic conditions in the 1970s. Experts highlighted marital happiness as conducive to healthy birth and considered unwed women more prone to prematurity. By the 1980s, social factors had faded from interest in favour of a bio-medicalised view. Our findings are based on a rigorous comparative analysis of medical journals from Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GX21-28766X" target="_blank" >GX21-28766X: Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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