In the early 1900s,just under 50 percent of births took place at home.Today,around 99 percent of all births take place in hospitals.This is an example of:

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The shift from home births to hospital births represents medicalization, the process of society seeing a growing range of issues as medical problems to be treated by medical professionals in medical settings. In this case, childbirth was medicalized and moved from a home-based event overseen by midwives or family members to a hospital-based event overseen by medical professionals.

In the Early 1900s,just Under 50 Percent of Births Took