Resumen

ARGUELLO-AVENDANO, Hilda E.  y  MATEO-GONZALEZ, Ana. Traditional Birth Attendants and Medicalized Birth, a Conflict From the Past? Evolution of the Discourse of International Health Organizations in the Past Twenty Years. LiminaR [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.2, pp.13-29. ISSN 2007-8900.

This article focuses on the current conflict over the role of traditional birth attendants in the assistance to the reproduction (pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium) and the similarities between this and the time in which midwifery was not longer more a women's job. The speeches of international agencies that dictate the public politics on maternal health -UNFPA, WHO- remind us what happened centuries ago in Europe and the United States, at the time that medical practice was consolidated as a profession and universal and official science. Through these questioning about the capabilities of midwives, first expressed to address complications and then for normal deliveries -eutocic-, placing them as outside the formal health system figures.

Palabras llave : traditional birth attendant; skilled health worker; skilled attendant; maternal mortality; maternal care.

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