2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Midwives and Normality of Deliveries in Hospitals in Japan : who justifies wheter a delivery is nomral ornot
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11610232
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | TOKYOBUNKA JUNIOR COLLEGE |
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Principal Investigator |
OHDE Harue TOKYOBUNKA JUNIOR COLLEGE, PROFESSOR, 生活学科, 教授 (50194220)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | childbirth / delivery / midwifery / midwife / medicine / pregnancy / hospital / natural birth |
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| Research Abstract |
This report is the result of the investigation (Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research 1999-2001, Project No.11610232) conducted by the theme, Midwives and Normality in Deliveries in hospital --who judges "it is normal". The outline of results of this investigation can be summarized as follows.
Generally, safety and mother's satisfaction in deliveries are aimed by all the staff, such as doctors, midwives, and nurses in hospitals. Nevertheless, hospitals are an inconsistent organization for midwives as a professional for normal deliveries. Midwives are expected to have enough knowledge in order to cope with abnormal deliveries like doctors, also expected to take care of patients in other wards. This situation tends to make midwives in hospitals lose their -self-confidence in their techniques for midwifery.
Through this finding from hearing in contemporary hospitals in Japan, I thought that it was necessary to explore historical factors which midwives had been the specialist for normal delivery. For this aim, a midwifery periodical was analyzed. This periodical was monthly magazine called "Josan no Shiori" published from 1896 to 1944. The author reconstructed historical change in midwifery and social situations. From this review, I found that medicalization in childbirth began in late 1920's to 1930's in Japan, though the change were limited to urban areas. Also it must be emphasized that medicare and social work which were formed to protect worker's health in modem Japan. These two social framework enabled doctors to penetrate normal deliveries and women to go to hospitals.
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