Titlebook: Reproduction, Medicine and the Socialist State; Alena Heitlinger Book 1987 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

callous

MEEK

Conclusionuality), and lesser reliance on bottle-feeding in the first few months after birth. We have also noted the extent to which reproduction has become dominated by professional medicine and state population policies.

无法治愈

Aerate

FIN

Becoming a Mother Againgnificance of the fertility changes and the usefulness of some of the standard fertility indicators, especially family size. This should come as no surprise, given the fact that ‘we lack a generally accepted or at least undisputed theory about post-transitional reproduction’ (Acsadi and Johnson-Acsadi, 1980, p. 25)..

丛林

用肘

Socialist Nursingd the hospital? As mentioned in the previous chapter, there is a clear distinction between ambulatory and hospital maternity care in the socialist countries and women’s nurses, like obstetricians, rarely work simultaneously in both settings.

不可知论

Abortion women’s bodies’ (or a woman’s right to choose) versus ’protecting (or killing) the unborn child’. The former argument is clearly related to feminism, while the latter has the organisational support of the so-called ‘prolife lobby’, which includes many Catholics and advocates of ‘traditional family values’..

禁止,切断

Childbirthome and hospital confinements, the increasingly active medical management of birth, the value of mortality statistics, and the relevance of current research on the importance of early bonding. Debates about some of these trends are beginning to take place also in Czechoslovakia.

alcoholism

Sexuality, Procreation and ContraceptionCultural norms pertaining to sexuality have certainly changed so that sex is now socially recognised as playing a central role in society. Unlike the situation in the 1950s and early 1960s, the issue is now discussed relatively openly in Czechoslovakia, both in expert advice books and in scholarly publications.