@article{ref1,
title="Re-centering relationships: obstetric violence, health care rationalities, and pandemic childbirth in Canada",
journal="Medical anthropology quarterly",
year="2022",
author="Rice, Kathleen",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Emerging evidence suggests that the COVD-19 pandemic is eroding childbirth rights. Drawing on narratives of women who gave birth in Canada during the pandemic, this article exposes a paradox in that policies aimed at limiting interpersonal contact implicitly acknowledge the connection between health, well-being, and the social context of people's lives, yet they frame this relationality as a liability to be eliminated. They do this despite the many benefits that social support is known to confer for pregnancy and childbirth. I suggest that obstetric violence theory could be expanded to include the perinatal health care system's failure to consider the well-being of pregnant and birthing persons as necessarily interdependent with that of close others. Conscientiously and routinely making the safeguarding of these relationships a priority in perinatal health care planning may strengthen existing health care systems against certain forms of obstetric violence. [childbirth, COVID-19, obstetric violence, relational personhood, Canada].<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0745-5194",
doi="10.1111/maq.12739",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maq.12739"
}