Pitfalls of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare of Women in India
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The practice of obstetrics and gynaecology (OB/GYN) has historically been dominated by men and was brought into existence as a replacement for midwifery, a woman-centered model of care, by women, which was deemed unscientific. Instead of improving on this model, they built their own as they considered women weak, naïve, and irrational to understand the ‘complex science’.
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