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Concepts of Health and Illness: Activity 2 – Commentary
Activity 2 – Commentary
Clearly it is difficult to draw generalisations about individual encounters of this sort. Nevertheless, in general, the doctor would be concerned about how potential complications associated with the delivery could be managed in a home setting. The doctor might also perceive the desire to have a home birth as a rejection of established medical approaches to childbirth and, by extension, as a threat to his or her professional status as a doctor.
The pregnant woman may also be concerned about dealing with potential complications, but she might set this in the context of wishing to retain as much control as possible over the birth process and minimising the disruption to her own life.
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