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The paper discusses how childbirth at the present time is considered to be a natural event yet is accepted as a condition to be treated in hospital. The paper explains that the contradiction arose from the process of medicalization whereby childbirth was defined as an illness and came under the control of the medical profession (Findlay & Miller, 2002). This paper offers a literature review intended to investigate how medicalization was initiated and mainly to explore the impact of medicalization for pregnant women. The timeframe is the late 1800s to the 1950s but is not chronological. The themes and arguments are from the perspectives of medicine, ethics, ordinary women and their choices, feminism, sociology, and art history.

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"Childbirth at the present time is considered to be a natural event yet is accepted as a condition to be treated in hospital. The contradiction arose from the process of medicalization whereby childbirth was defined as an illness and came under the control of the medical profession (Findlay & Miller, 2002). This will be a literature review intended to investigate how medicalization was initiated and mainly to explore the impact of medicalization for pregnant women. The timeframe will be the late 1800s to the 1950s but will not be chronological. The themes and arguments are from..."

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