In the early 1900s,more than half of American women gave birth 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 is an example of medicalization, the process of defining and treating normal human processes and behaviors as medical conditions requiring intervention by healthcare professionals. This shift was due to the medicalization of childbirth and the belief that hospital births were safer and better than home births.

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