Personal Motivations

Although there is plenty written on the (bio)medicalization of pregnancy and birthing, and I would have liked to choose a topic on which less is written, I have chosen this topic for my “disease” journal because of personal interests. I have a plan of one day becoming a midwife and have already begun training to be a post-partum doula. More recently, a good friend of mine nearly died in the hospital after giving birth by cesarean section to a healthy little baby. The majority of women in my life over 30 are either pregnant or have just given birth. I have a personal investment in understanding these processes of biomedicalization better for both my close friends and my future career.