{"id":5344,"date":"2016-04-26T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2016-06-11T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T02:44:56","slug":"the-double-life-of-misoprostol-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/the-double-life-of-misoprostol-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"The double life of misoprostol in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 2016<\/p>\n

The biomedicalisation of illegal abortion: the double life of misoprostol in Brazil<\/a>\u00a0examines the double function of this drug in Brazil, where it is illegally used by women as an abortifacient and legally used in obstetric hospital wards.\"Misoproptol\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Written by Silvia de Zordo –\u00a0Department of Anthropology at Universitat de Barcelona – this paper is based\u00a0on her \u00a0doctoral and post-doctoral anthropological research on contraception and abortion in Salvador, Bahia.<\/p>\n

The article initially traces the \u201cconversion\u201d of misoprostol from a drug to treat ulcers to a self-administered abortifacient in Latin America, and its later conversion to an eclectic global obstetric tool.<\/p>\n

The history of misoprostol shows that globalised biomedicine does not always travel from a putative \u201cnorthern\u201d centre to its \u201csouthern\u201d periphery. \u00a0The global biomedicalisation of abortion via self-administered misoprostol occurred without legal approval and medical guidance, thanks to the initiative of Latin American women and drug sellers living in countries with restrictive abortion laws, like Brazil.\u00a0At the same time, obstetrician-gynaecologists throughout the world have started to use it off-label for a number of obstetric procedures.<\/div>\n
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At the same time, obstetrician-gynaecologists throughout the world have started to use it off-label for a number of obstetric procedures.\u00a0As a result, maternal mortality rates have decreased in countries with restrictive abortion laws, like Brazil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This article was published in\u00a0The Biomedicalization of Brazilian Bodies: Anthropological Perspectives (vol.23 no.1 Rio de Janeiro Jan.\/Mar.<\/a>\u00a02016)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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