The humanization of childbirth in Brazil as seen in the trajectories of its researchers

Abstract

This qualitative research analyzes the trajectories of researchers who have produced master’s and doctoral dissertations and theses on the humanization of childbirth in Brazil. The questions guiding the investigation are: How did the researchers detect the emergence of the conception of humanization of childbirth in their professional trajectories? How do these trajectories interrelate with the movement for the humanization of childbirth in Brazil? The Foucauldian theoretical framework adopted helps identify the positions occupied by the researchers in the discourse in favor of humanization, their places of utterance, and relations of knowledge and power that permeated the construction of the movement for the humanization of childbirth in Brazil.