Article ID: CBB126256232

Reproductive Modernities in Policy: Maternal Mortality, Midwives, and Cesarean Sections in China, 1900s–2000s (April 2020)

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China is one of a few countries to reach the 2015 United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent in fifteen years. The longstanding and intractable problem of maternal mortality in the Global North and South makes China's success all the more remarkable. This article examines relationships between China's reproductive health policies aimed at reducing maternal mortality and technological changes in managing childbirth associated with them from the early twentieth century to the present day. Tracing technological choices to prevent maternal deaths at junctures in the history of health-based reforms makes visible China's broader economic and political priorities in its internal modernization projects and in its interest in raising the nation's global standing. Finally, the consequences of state reproductive priorities emerging in recent years suggest that women's decisions to delay childbearing or to bear multiple children, may bring about circumstances increasing the risk of maternal death.

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Authors & Contributors
Santos, Gonçalo
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
Kellie Owens
Ruoxi Yu
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
Shirai, Chiaki
Concepts
Medical technology
Medicine
Childbirth
Women
Medicine and government
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
China
United States
Japan
Great Britain
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Germany
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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