Sobre violencia obstétrica: respuesta y resistencia de las embarazadas en un hospital público

Abstract

The present paper describes the different forms of response, resistance and negotiation of medical attention to women users, as opposed to the practices, discourses and attitudes of obstetric violence by the medical staff. The study was conducted in a maternity hospital in the city of Merida, Yucatán, using qualitative methodology, with an ethnographic design with the approach of medical anthropology. We interviewed women who were in the process of receiving attention from childbirth and puerperal, family members and medical staff from the same institution.