Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: Family-Centered Birth and the Emergence of Homelike Birthing Rooms

Maria Fannin

doi:10.1002/9781444397468.ch4

Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: Family-Centered Birth and the Emergence of Homelike Birthing Rooms

Maria Fannin^*

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School of Geographical Sciences

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Life's Work
Subtitle of host publication	Geographies of Social Reproduction
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Pages	95-118
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Print)	1405111348, 9781405111348
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444397468.ch4
Publication status	Published - 13 Apr 2012

Keywords

"Family-Centered" birth, "Homelike" birthing rooms
"natural" versus "medical" and "hospital" versus "home"
Domesticating birth, a home within the hospital
Domesticity, and other homely spaces of modernity
Homelike hospital rooms, within domestic, institutional space
Hospital birthing rooms, reworking the medical paradigm
Reinscribing hospital birth as natural, and the domestic as ideal
Shifts, homelike birthing rooms in hospitals, as places of wellness
Structuring dualisms, debates over appropriate spaces of birth
US hospitals, the shift, transforming understandings of the domestic

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