Background Childbirth fear and interventions during childbirth might be related to the
mindset and knowledge non-pregnant women have regarding childbirth. Non-pregnant …

A growing prevalence of home births has been reported, yet factors predicting this
prevalence have not been adequately investigated in South Africa. Using the 2016 South …

Drawing on the Hegemonic Masculinity Theory, a culturally idealized form of masculinity that
legitimizes men's dominant position over women and other marginalized men, this …

Because the overwhelming majority of births in the United States (US) occur in hospitals and
other medical settings rather than at home, the only births many US women see before …

ABSTRACT The United States continues to favor heavily medicalized childbirth, an
approach that strips agency from birthing women and contains higher risks of complications …

This article explores themes of crisis, care, and vulnerability in the 2022 BBC series This is
Going to Hurt. Arguing that the series is significant within the genre of medical-themed …

Grey's Anatomy, one of the most-watched primetime medical dramas in the USA, has been
on the air for two decades now. Though scholars have examined the influence the show has …

Objectives To investigate midwifery students' experiences of viewing childbirth on
mainstream factual television and to explore implications for student career intentions and …

In this paper, we analyze two mainstream children's films, Storks (2016), and The Boss Baby
(2017), both of which answer the proverbial question,“Where do babies come from?” with …

This paper looks at three televised examples of pregnant women grappling with prenatal
testing. In these stories, prenatal testing for disability is increasingly being framed as a …