On the Margins of Maternity: Low-Income Women’s Experiences of Maternity Care in Late Twentieth-Century Glasgow

IF 0.6 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY
Janet Greenlees
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Summary The healthcare provided to expectant mothers impacts the health outcomes of the mother and infant, or infants, and reflects current social and political priorities which mirror middle-class values and leave poorer women feeling socially isolated. Utilising focus group interviews with nineteen women who were living on low-incomes in Glasgow, Scotland, when they delivered their first child between the 1970s and early 2000s, this article analyses the women’s recollections of their maternity care experiences within the changing middle-class health context. It reveals how expectant mothers remembered feeling healthcare practitioners prioritised the needs of the embryo/foetus/infant before their own. The women recalled feeling stigmatised for being pregnant and poor. While interviewees identified individual caring practitioners, overall a disconnect remained between the middle-class healthcare providers and the needs of low-income mothers. Finally, this article suggests that co-creating history with a third-sector organisation could offer a potential methodology for addressing the middle-class bias of official sources.
产妇的边缘:二十世纪晚期格拉斯哥低收入妇女的孕产护理经历
摘要 为孕妇提供的医疗保健服务影响着母婴或婴儿的健康结果,并反映了当前社会和政治的优先事项,这些优先事项反映了中产阶级的价值观,使贫困妇女感到社会孤立。本文通过对苏格兰格拉斯哥 19 名低收入妇女的焦点小组访谈,分析了她们在不断变化的中产阶级健康背景下的孕产护理经历。文章揭示了准妈妈们在回忆中如何感受到医护人员优先考虑胚胎/胎儿/婴儿的需要,而不是她们自己的需要。这些妇女回忆说,她们因怀孕和贫穷而感到耻辱。虽然受访者指出了个别富有爱心的医疗从业者,但总体而言,中产阶级医疗服务提供者与低收入母亲的需求之间仍然存在脱节。最后,本文认为,与第三部门组织共同创造历史可以为解决官方资料来源中的中产阶级偏见提供一种潜在的方法。
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Social History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine 社会科学-科学史与科学哲学
CiteScore
1.60
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发文量
63
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Social History of Medicine , the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It is committed to publishing work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines. The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes, critical assessments of archives and sources, conference reports, up-to-date information on research in progress, a discussion point on topics of current controversy and concern, review articles, and wide-ranging book reviews.
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