Viisainen, Kirsi - In: Social Science & Medicine 52 (2001) 7, pp. 1109-1121
Each society has its own consensual understanding of birth and its determinants: caregivers, location, participants and 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...