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ARNAU SANCHEZ, José et al. Ethnographic analysis of the perinatal care interventionism. Index Enferm [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.4, pp.270-274. ISSN 1699-5988.

Objective: To analyse the cultural facts that determine the perinatal interventionism in a Health Area of Murcia Region. Methods: A qualitative research with ethnographic approach was carried out in this research by using both focus group to professionals and eighteen in depth interviews to women who were in postpartum period. These methods were complemented by carrying out a participant observation in both primary health care and hospital. Results: Three central themes emerged from narratives: pregnant women's ideologic representations about pain, the uncertainty of the risk of the perinatal process, the hospital: security environment and axis of the interventionism. Conclusions: the determinant facts about the interventionism of the perinatal care are related to the high demand for epidural analgesia from pregnant women and its systematic offer provided by professionals, the uncertainty of the risk during the pregnancy, the hospital representation as a safe place during childbirth, and the pregnancy women's enculturation that takes place through circuit of care.

Palavras-chave : Risk; Pain; Childbirth; Pregnancy; Puerperium; Interventionism; Etnography.