Zhidchenko  A.V.

MATERNITY HOUSE IN THE SOVIET CITY OF THE MIDDLE OF THE XX century: MEDICAL, SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGI-CAL AND MATERIAL-HOUSE ASPECT

Authors

Zhidchenko A.V.

Keywords:

Maternity home, city, demography, social history, ethnic and gender approach, history of medicine, practices of procreation, history of obstetrics

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the role played by a maternity home in the life of a Soviet urban resident in the 1950s-1960s. through the prism of medical, socio-psychological and material-everyday aspects. During this period, a new image of the maternity hospital is being formed, related to the notions of qualified medical care, the safety of childbirth, as well as the corresponding ceremonies and traditions at the time of the birth of the child. However, the image of the maternity hospital declared by the official Soviet propaganda and the real state of affairs in the city maternity homes did not always correspond to each other. During the correlation of these two images, a number of contradictions were identified that formed the real appearance and the real place of the maternity hospital in the Soviet city in the 1950s–1960s.

MATERNITY HOUSE IN THE SOVIET CITY OF THE MIDDLE OF THE XX century: MEDICAL, SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGI-CAL AND MATERIAL-HOUSE ASPECT