Birth Reform (Other Keyword)

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Birthing amid violence: Obstetric reform and legacies of conflict in Medellín, Colombia (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2025)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andres Restrepo Sanchez.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project explores the challenges of bringing life into a context of death. Colombia has suffered one of the longest internal armed conflicts, and Medellín has been one of its most affected territories. I am interested in how multiple scales of violence are understood, experienced, and/or resisted in birth contexts in Medellín. Obstetric violence has been used in various Latin American...