Be As You Wish To Seem: Tragedy, triumphalism and toxicity in maternity services

Elizabeth Sutton; Harsha Ananthram; Nadine Montgomery; Rebecca Matthews

Be As You Wish To Seem: Tragedy, triumphalism and toxicity in maternity services

Elizabeth Sutton, Harsha Ananthram, Nadine Montgomery, Rebecca Matthews

Monash Bioethics Centre

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Abstract

Women aspire to positive birth experiences and expect a live baby in their arms at the end of this process. In their Comment, Hannah Dahlen and colleagues (July, 2022)1 proclaim that women are so poorly served by current models that the aspirations of birthing women have been “set at immediate survival”. The 2022 Ockenden report highlighted that a fixation on reducing the number of caesarean sections meant that survival was more than what many women could expect.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e1237
Number of pages	1
Journal	The Lancet Global Health
Volume	10
Issue number	9
Publication status	Published - 9 Aug 2022

Keywords

midwifery
birth
Ideology
health service management
models of care

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https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00322-9Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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