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Home delivery - Czech reflection discussion
NĚMCOVÁ, Tereza
Periodicals are the topic a home birth engaged only in certain time waves, about whether a home birth is permissible or not. The views of the general public are greatly influenced by the media that report on these events. The professional public provides expert opinions on home birth. These views are supported by relevant research. And that's why the medical opinion carries a great weight for the view on this whole topic. In my bachelor thesis, I have dealt with home birth, as reflected in newspapers. In the theoretical part, I focused on defining the terms and the legislation associated with home birth, as midwife, doula, birth plan and others. I provided detailed history on the procedure of transfer of women from the home environment to the medical environment. I also explained the applicable laws relating to midwives and newborns. The aim of my thesis was to map the interest of press in the home birth. The reflections are associated with events in this issue. I also examined the reactions and opinions of journalists, lay and professional public. An integral part of this research was to monitor the trends and shifts in this debate. I used the qualitative research strategy in the form of analysis of printed documents in my thesis. The research group was based on the three most widely read journals - Lidove noviny, MF Dnes and Právo, and the three most read newsweeklies - Reflex, Respekt and Týden. The research cohorts were selected according to the readership criteria based on the data from the Publishers' Union from 2013. I identified two seasons for my research. The first one was the period from 1990 to 2012 for Mladá fronta Dnes. I performed a retrospective analysis of development in these data to explore the media interest in home birth over a longer period of time. The second period (for all media) was between January 1, 2013 and June 30, 2015. A deeper analysis of the articles was performed for a shorter period of time. The research showed that periodicals are not interested in home birth. It turned out that the discussion was based on an event. Mostly, it was a negative event. The highest increase in frequency of articles was found in the events associated with the judiciary and in the events associated with the death or adverse developments in home birth. The discussion is the last part of this thesis. The results are compared with the literature used in the theoretical part. In conclusion, I present a summary of my research and suggestions for solutions.
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Home childbirths in the context of the Czech health
Cuřínová, Veronika Mariana ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Vlčková, Kamila (referee)
This thesis deals with framing of homebirths in the Czech Republic. It is focused on the interpretation of homebirths in the Czech mass and alternative media. The goal of this paper is find out what kind of discourse dominate about homebirths in public discussion, against which attitude to childbirth it is in conflict and if this interpretation correspond with "real" practise of homebirths. I used discourse analysis for uncover discourses in Czech media and the in-depth interview with mothers for detecting the process, risks and experience of homebirth (was compared with the experience of childbirths in hospital). The secondary goal of the thesis is to discover how much are reflected the people involved in this issue. Theoretically, the paper is based on framing theory and the concept of human rights. The sources of analysis are composed of the Czech media articles (2014-2017) and the statements of mothers interviewed.
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Homebirth as Actor-Network
Genttnerová, Kristýna ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (referee)
Homebirth as Actor-Network: Multiple realities The topic of this medical anthropology thesis is a description of homebirth seen through the eyes of Actor-Network Theory. The focus of this work is thus not on the professional concept of homebirth as a biological process or soon-to-be-mothers experience and take on homebirth. Focus is on homebirth in itself, how it is enacted in practice. After the presentation of two points of view on medicine (disease and illness), an introduction into the basic principles and innovations of ANT (including anthropology of symmetry) and works of people, who build their ideas on it (Mol - multiplicity, De Laet - fluidity, Law), the thesis shifts its focus to the description of the whole actor- network, which enacts homebirth via interaction between the actors in practice. These practices are abstracted from the interviews with mothers, a dula and a paediatrician. The description includes people and objects, because according to ANT, they have the same amount of social agency. Homebirth is then enacted by the objects needed for homebirth - tools to make birth easier and to support its process, by people who partake, venues it takes place and the birthing positions it brings. Another part of the actor-network can be found before the homebirth happens - the hunt for information...
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Discourse analysis of childbirth in the Czech media
Suchánková, Markéta ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (referee)
The thesis focuses on the analysis of a dispute regarding home birth and discourses associated with it. The thesis focuses on the analysis of a dispute regarding home birth and discourses associated with it. The thesis focuses on the analysis of a dispute regarding home birth and discourses associated with it. Choice of location and proces sof giving birth in czech environment remains very limited and domestic deliveries are subject of controversy among professional medical community and state institutions on the one hand and midwives, civil movements and comitted mothers on the other hand. Theme divides laical and expert public. It's established through discourses, reflect the views and opinions of the two quarreled groups - supporters of medically controlled childbirth and supporters of natural birth. In the context of media reporting can be identified two main streams of discursive formations, scattering of concepts, thematic choices, objels and modalities of coming to the statement - medical discourse and natural discourse. The controversy both discourses in the Czech media escalated with court case with midwife Ivana Königsmarková, who in 2009 assisted at home birth that ended tragically - serious damage and subsequent death of a child. Just on the case of Ivana Königsmarková and its...
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"With Ivana at home" - natural childbirth as a disruption of power discourse: discoursive analysis of www.pribehyproivanu.cz
Zemanová, Eva ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Jahodová, Dita (referee)
The topic of this thesis is woman's experience with natural childbirth and its potential for disruption of medical discourse, which is in the Czech Republic in obstetrics still dominating. Through the method of discoursive analysis I am trying to generate any behavior that may be in conflict with social expectations and may question norms and standards in the field of pregnancy and obstetrics. I am also trying to trace whether and how does the deepening and gaining of the birth knowledge lead to the transformation of woman's identity. Theoretically, the work is grounded in a post-structuralist paradigm and builds on the concepts of biopower, performative acting and authoritative knowledge. Data sources are stories written in support of a midwife Ivana Königsmarková and published on the internet (www.pribehyproivanu.cz).
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Home births in media
Štichauerová, Iva ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with home births and how they were referred to in the media regarding the medial cause with a midwife Ivana Königsmarková. The goal of this work is to describe approaches that can be traced on this cause, what is the gender dimension of these approaches like and how does the aspect of power manifest itself on them. To achieve that I've chosen a method of discourse analysis which is the best one to point out the relation between language, power and ideology. Analysed material is represented by the articles from Czech media that are associated with the given cause and on basis of which the most frequently occurring topics can be traced along with their tendencies throughout time. Last but not least I'm closely analysing two chosen articles which represent two dominant ways of thinking - the medical approach of labour and natural or alternative approach.
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Legal aspects of home birth
Krtičková, Adéla ; Hendrychová, Michaela (advisor) ; Šustek, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with home births and legal issues related to this topic. There is no specific regulation of home births in the Czech law, but it's possible to use Czech legislation for the interpretation of this issue, especially the legislation of medical law, civil law and criminal law. The issue of home births is recently very actual topic, which can be proven by the current extensive jurisprudence of the Czech and foreign courts, which belongs by the way to major sources of this thesis. In addition to describing the situation in the Czech Republic, I tried to point out some differences between the Czech and foreign law, I tried to outline some changes in the new Czech Civil Code and I also tried to provide some reflections on future trends in the issue of home births in the Czech Republic. The aim of my thesis was to highlight the conflicts of the guaranteed rights contained in the supreme law of which frequent disputes of society are going on, and to provide a possible solution of this situation. The issue of home births include the conflict between the right to protection of life and health, and the right to private and family life, both guaranteed by constitutional law. The right of privacy includes the right of women to freely choose the place of birth for their children, including the...
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Anthropological perception of current home births without medical assistance.
Drabantová, Lucia ; Brůžek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Koudelová, Jana (referee)
The study discusses the current home births in developed countries. Introduction deals with the emergence of a model of human birth in the background of evolutionary mechanisms and the resulting biological risks, which are illustrated by data on maternal and neonatal mortality. Home births are understood in the complex scale, and so formation of current model of obstetrics in selected countries is shown in historical background. It brings most common image of women and the circumstances that lead to the choice of home birth. The study focuses on the comparison of home and hospital births due to the occurrence of undesirable health complications. As this comparison showed the results that births are largely influenced by medical interventions carried out, frequency of these procedures is also compared. Higher occurrence of interventions in hospital births can be partly explained by changes in the demographic profile of mother, which increases the risks associated with childbirth at home. Data processed in the study suggest that today's home births require extensive implementation of system changes, and therefore the home birth as a safe alternative is not recommended. It also doesn't consider hospital births appropriate in terms of excessive interventions, rather a compromise in the form of home birthing...
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The question of naturalness in the context of Czech massmedia discussion/discourse about childbirth
Veverková, Martina ; Sládek, Jan (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
This paper analyses the Czech mass media discourse about models of childbirth care and focuses on using the term of naturalness. Czech obstetrics care is highly influenced by habitudes and practices that were typical for socialist era, but transforms to the western model. Dissatisfaction with the care was the main reason for rediscovery of homebirth that became a very controversial point in Czech society accompanied by mass media discussion which is the subject of this analysis. The most important findings are that doctors tend to advocate their practices no matter whether they discuss homebirth or caesarean delivery on maternal request (which can be seen as two poles of the scale of naturalness and total medicalization) and in this second case they show themselves as advocates of the naturalness. Czech midwives, opposing the dominant practices, are not able to communicate well enough the positives of natural childbirth and midwifery care, which can be one of reasons why they fail to push through the legalization of homebirth. Keywords Sociology of body, sociology of childbirth, medicalization, homebirth, naturalness
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