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Record W4415022374 · doi:10.4324/9781003507680-11

Boundaries of Birth, Medicine, and the Body

2025· book-chapter· en· W4415022374 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Candace Johnson

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutonomyIntervention (counseling)ChildbirthEconomic JusticeOrder (exchange)Natural childbirth

Abstract

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As rates of medical intervention in childbirth increase in Canada alongside evidence of some troubling maternal health indicators, it is tempting to equate these trends with declining autonomy and increasing oppression. However, the complexities of technological birth, increased “risk,” and adverse outcomes tell many stories. In this chapter, it is argued that it has become more difficult to resolve debates about the degree to which or the ways in which medicine is oppressive in the birthing arena, as recourse to “the facts” is increasingly politicized, and the social-molecular/medical interface, for better or worse, increasingly integrated. In order to interpret and consider these facts and examine the complexity of the current trends, the chapter relies on various frameworks and arguments from the obstetrics violence literature. Ultimately, it proposes a theory of obstetric justice, which considers, from evidence, what justice would require from obstetric/birthing care.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.207
Threshold uncertainty score0.411

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.059
Scholarly communication0.0090.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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