title: "Holy scan" or "picture of the baby?" Biomedicalization and stratification in the use of obstetric ultrasound in Rio de Janeiro.
abstract: Based on ethnographic studies conducted at public and private healthcare facilities in Rio de Janeiro, we argue that the dissemination of (bio)medicalization varies in accordance with the social stratum of the expectant mothers, thereby producing thoroughly distinct fetal and pregnant bodies, as well as different gestational processes. Starting from the basic premise that biomedicalization represents a transformation in the process of medicalization, characterized by the growing incorporation of technoscience into biomedicine, the observed universes displayed different stages in this transformation, consonant with the social stratification of the women who underwent the scans.
authors.affiliation: Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, liliankc_2004@yahoo.com.br.
authors.forename: Lilian Krakowski
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Chazan
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, livifaro@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Livi F T
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Faro
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006268:Health Facilities; D006801:Humans; D062528:Medicalization; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D012923:Social Class; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal