Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India

要旨

Behavior change and improving health literacy based on normative ideals of motherhood is a dominant paradigm to address maternal health challenges. However, these ideals often remove women’s control over their bodies overlooking how the bodily experiences of pregnancy are socially and culturally constructed. We report on 27 interviews with pregnant women and nursing mothers in rural and semi-urban areas of South India, and six focus groups with 23 frontline health workers as secondary data. We explore how the embodied pregnancy experiences are influenced and negotiated by the socio-cultural context and existing care infrastructures. Our findings highlight how the ways of seeing, knowing, and caring for a body of a pregnant woman through often conflicting norms, beliefs and practices of medicine, nourishment and care actively shape the experiences of pregnancy. We open up a space for novel opportunities for digital health technologies to enhance women’s embodied experiences and pregnancy care infrastructures in the Global South.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Naveen Bagalkot
Srishti Institute of Art, Design, & Technology, Bangalore, India
Syeda Zainab Akbar
Microsoft Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Swati Sharma
Srishti Institute of Art, Design, & Technology, Bangalore, India
Nicola Mackintosh
University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Deirdre Harrington
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Paula Griffiths
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Judith Angelitta Noronha
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
Nervo Verdezoto
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3501950

動画

会議: CHI 2022

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2022.acm.org/)

セッション: Everyday Life and Technologies

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2022-05-04 23:15:00
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