Being born is the most “natural” event (biologically defined) and, at the same time, the most complex event. The progressive medicalization of birth has led to a decreased interest in the lived experience which accompany it. Focusing on the delivery and the way it is conducted from a medical perspective, in a positivist vision, means reduce the existential relevance of childbirth (becoming a parent and caring relationship) to a purely biological reality, to the body-as-organism rather then to the body-as-person.
Venire al mondo è l’evento naturale (in senso biologico) e, al tempo stesso, complesso e straordinario. La progressiva medicalizzazione della nascita ha comportato una diminuzione di interesse verso i vissuti che l’accompagnano. Concentrare l’attenzione al parto dal punto di vista medico, secondo una visione positivista, significa ridurre la rilevanza esistenziale del mettere al mondo (del diventare genitori e delle relazioni di cura) ad una realtà meramente biologica, al corpo-organismo anziché al corpo-persona.
La Sala, G. B., Iori, V., Fagandini, P., Monti, F. (eds.), La normale complessità del venire al mondo, Guerini & Associati, Milano 2006: 453 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/7669]
La normale complessità del venire al mondo
Iori, Vanna;Fagandini, Piergiuseppina;
2006
Abstract
Being born is the most “natural” event (biologically defined) and, at the same time, the most complex event. The progressive medicalization of birth has led to a decreased interest in the lived experience which accompany it. Focusing on the delivery and the way it is conducted from a medical perspective, in a positivist vision, means reduce the existential relevance of childbirth (becoming a parent and caring relationship) to a purely biological reality, to the body-as-organism rather then to the body-as-person.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.