Consideraciones sobre la relación mente-cuerpo en el proceso del parto

  1. Ballesteros, Virginia 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Journal:
Eikasía: revista de filosofía

ISSN: 1885-5679

Year of publication: 2023

Issue Title: mayo-junio ¿Cuestión de género? Filosofía, mujeres, feminismos

Issue: 114

Pages: 57-73

Type: Article

DOI: 10.57027/EIKASIA.114.580 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

I analyze some key aspects of the medical model of childbirth, focusing especially on the assumptions it seems to harbor about the mind-body relationship. First, I examine views of the medical model as an ontological dualist model. Contrary to the usual criticisms of this dualism, which argue that it has led to treating the birthing body as a machine I argue that the problem lies not in the dualism itself, but in the fact that the mind-body interaction is obviated: it is the birthing persons themselves who are treated as machines. Secondly, I analyze the centrality of the notion of risk in the medical model of childbirth and argue that it again reveals a split between the mental and the bodily. I also defend a constructionist conception of risk, since risk is not independent of medical discourses and practices, but rather these factors have a causal impact on it. Thirdly and finally, I briefly address the discrediting of the testimonies of birthing people, pointing again to the split between the body and the mind.

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